World Of Watches: Across the World One Time Zone at a Time
The return of global travel sparks an examination of international time zones. You might know about GMT and UTC, but it might surprise you to learn that the matter is far from settled
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In the world of physics, there are only two sorts of time, the relativistic sort that makes up one part of the fourth dimension, as described by Einstein, and the arow of time that moves in the direction of entropy. In the world of technology, commerce, health, culture and politics there are multiple times – and, it seems, often a complete lack of logic to underpin them. While anyone who has had to catch a plane, or make an international phone call, knows how tricksy time zones can be – and for all that they just seem part of the fabric of global living – next year marks what is only their 140th anniversary. The idea of time zones is young. It is also in flux.
?The whole issue of time zones is simple in essence but a complex problem in reality,? as Emily Akkermans puts it. She is the fantastically-titled Curator of Time at the Greenwich Royal Observatory in London (?I haven?t managed to bend time to my will yet,? she jokes). ?We meddle with time zones around the world and make changes all the time. Whether those reasons are good ones depends on what side of the fence you?re sitting.”
Greenwich is where, for reasons of its history in pioneer...
The post World Of Watches: Across the World One Time Zone at a Time appeared first on LUXUO.
Oyster Perpetual GMT-Master II
In the world of physics, there are only two sorts of time, the relativistic sort that makes up one part of the fourth dimension, as described by Einstein, and the arow of time that moves in the direction of entropy. In the world of technology, commerce, health, culture and politics there are multiple times – and, it seems, often a complete lack of logic to underpin them. While anyone who has had to catch a plane, or make an international phone call, knows how tricksy time zones can be – and for all that they just seem part of the fabric of global living – next year marks what is only their 140th anniversary. The idea of time zones is young. It is also in flux.
?The whole issue of time zones is simple in essence but a complex problem in reality,? as Emily Akkermans puts it. She is the fantastically-titled Curator of Time at the Greenwich Royal Observatory in London (?I haven?t managed to bend time to my will yet,? she jokes). ?We meddle with time zones around the world and make changes all the time. Whether those reasons are good ones depends on what side of the fence you?re sitting.”
Greenwich is where, for reasons of its history in pioneer...
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