One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity - Tapa dura

Bartky, Ian

 
9780804756426: One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity
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ISBN 10: 0804756422 ISBN 13: 9780804756426
Editorial: Stanford University Press, 2007

Sinopsis

One Time Fits All tells the story of the development, integration, and obstacles overcome in setting an the International Date Line, establishing the worldwide system of Standard Time zones, and adopting Daylight Saving Time-including their global impacts on how the general public keeps time today.

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Ian R. Bartky is a retired federal government scientist who has written and lectured extensively on numerous aspects of the public's time. He has done analyses for Congress and testified before it on technical issues associated with Daylight Saving Time. His previous book, Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America, was published by Stanford University Press in 2000.

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Editorial
Stanford University Press
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0804756422
ISBN 13 
9780804756426
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Número de páginas
322
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