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A Matter of Time
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A Matter of Time

Each Spring, an hour is stolen. The last couple years, we've been threatened with not getting it back. How'd we get here, and where are we going? When we arrive, will we know what time it really is?

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March 10, 2024

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We didn’t used to need governments to tell us the time. Throughout the millennia, the sun did it for us, enabling our ancestors to get thru the day.

Medieval clocks added some precision. But th…

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