Broken Tools (was Re: [prog] [C] strings bug)

[Jimen Ching]

On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Mary wrote:
>Pressure from the railway companies eventually forced the government to
>standardise (despite a lot of resistance along the lines of "interfering
>with nature's time/God's time" that surfaced later when daylight savings
>was proposed). Standardisation happened on one day, save for a few
>governemtn observatories, which kept different clocks for some years.

Does the book mention how long before this occured?  I mean, what is the
length of time between when the railroad industry was created, and when
this standard was put into place?

--jc
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Jimen Ching (WH6BRR)      jching at flex.com     wh6brr at uhm.ampr.org