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How clocks, calendars and time zones happen, and how they affect our life

The methods different people and communities have used to track their lives have been impacted by culture, by religion, by economics and technology, by the governing principles both within nations and among them.

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时钟、日历和时区的由来,以及它们如何影响我们的生活

Performers celebrate the Glasgow Central railway station clock during the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Glasgow, Scotland. One of the goals of industrialisation is to instil in people a regular, unvarying sense of time, O'Malley says.

It flies. It heals all wounds. It can be of the essence, and it can be money. We thrill in the best of it, lament the worst. We’re warned not to waste it, since we can’t turn it back – even as we try to make up for when it’s lost.

And probably more than anything when it comes to time, most of us try to manage it – in our everyday lives and on a global scale, from the biology of our circadian rhythms to what constitutes a work day. Clocks. Calendars. Pendulums. Hourglasses. Sundials. Time zones.

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