July 24, 2016
7:39 a.m.
On 07/24/2016 03:54 AM, Arthur David Olson wrote:
The time zone cabal dates to 1989
That's just the current incarnation. Previous editions of the cabal go back way before that. Here's a quote from a scholarly paper on timekeeping in ancient Mesopotamia: "It seems that this populace lived at least from the inception of writing with a reality-distorting system of timekeeping, which is a by no means surprising development." Englund KR. Administrative timekeeping in ancient Mesopotamia. J Econ Soc Hist Orient 31, 2 (1988), 121-85. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3632096