Harry Shannon
My cousin Henry told me about an online talk last week by David Rooney, a British historian. Rooney has just written a book called “About time: A history of civilization in twelve clocks.” The talk was very nicely done; I enjoyed it a lot. Rooney used each clock to illustrate a one-word theme – e.g., order, virtue, empires, …
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How I lost three hours to Summer Time
Harry
Shannon
Spring forward, Fall back; so goes the saying. Which means you ‘lose’ one hour when the clocks go forward in Spring.
Yet I
managed to lose three! I was in Canada
for the first one on 10 March. North
America extended the summer time period some years ago. The U.S. Congress were pretending they were
takin…