Dragaera

while cursing amazon re the non-release of _TLoCB_

Wed Aug 6 13:16:22 PDT 2003

Do technical preindustrial societies have "time zones"?

>From: Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
>I assert that no technical preindustrial society would be able to support
>a system with varying-length hours, not simply because of the difficulty
>of keeping time, but the horror of accounting for time periods in
>contracts, between time zones, ...
>

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