On 2014-02-06 03:58, David Malone wrote:

I think a version of this story is included in Derek Howse's "Greenwich Time and Longitude" book, in relation to the shutting down of the telegraph-based time service from Greenwich. See here, on page 115:

https://archive.org/details/GreenwichTime

He even gives a reference for the story.

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Forwarded from comp.time.nuts - the link is to an online and downloadable document comprehensively referencing the histories of the distribution of standard times, the establishment of standard time zones, and some of the absurdities uncovered. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis