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Science 8 February 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5864, p. 729
DOI: 10.1126/science.1152851
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TECHNOLOGY:
Change of Time over Changing Time

Thomas S. Mullaney

One Time Fits All
The Campaigns for Global Uniformity
by Ian R. Bartky
Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2007. 320 pp. $49.95. ISBN 9780804756426.
Focusing on the International Date Line, the system of Standard Time zones, and Daylight Saving-time, Barkty explores aspects of the global adoption of uniform civil time.
The reviewer is at the Department of History, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2024, USA. E-mail: tsmullaney{at}stanford.edu

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