Amazon.com description: Product Description: Pages: 272 Language: English Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd This is the biography of an idea. and the remarkable story of the man who created-and then convinced the world to adopt-a unified standard for telling time.Today we take the accurate telling of time across the world for granted Yet little more than a hundred years ago. people even in neighbouring towns lived by different time schedules:. noon was simply whenever the sun happened to be overhead-Toronto time. for example. was different from Hamilton time some forty miles away. None of this mattered when people travelled in the slow style that had been the norm for generations. But then. as Clark Blaise makes vividly clear. trains arrived-and in the new age of communications myriad local times became a mind-boggling obstacle. and the rational ordering of time an urgent priority.Sandford Fleming. a young emigrant f...