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diff --git a/elsie.nci.nih.gov/src/Theory b/elsie.nci.nih.gov/src/Theory index 96cba51..4f9c226 100644 --- a/elsie.nci.nih.gov/src/Theory +++ b/elsie.nci.nih.gov/src/Theory @@ -263,7 +263,15 @@ Errors in the tz database arise from many sources: be needed if the tz database's scope were extended to cover even just the known or guessed history of standard time; for example, the current single entry for France would need to split into dozens - of entries, perhaps hundreds. + of entries, perhaps hundreds. And in most of the world even this + approach would be misleading due to widespread disagreement or + indifference about what times should be observed. In her 2015 book + "The Global Transformation of Time, 1870-1950", Vanessa Ogle writes + "Outside of Europe and North America there was no system of time + zones at all, often not even a stable landscape of mean times, + prior to the middle decades of the twentieth century". See: + Timothy Shenk, Booked: A Global History of Time. Dissent 2015-12-17 + https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/booked-a-global-history-of-time-vanessa-ogle * Most of the pre-1970 data entries come from unreliable sources, often astrology books that lack citations and whose compilers evidently |