TIME

in ita general eense, is divided | a: » days, months, and years, and is} 3 asured by the regular recurrence of | a: tain astronomical phenomicna. In its / cc rower sense, the number of hours,/| « sates, ., from some fixed point of | t< e in each day, it is measured chiefly by | &: oks and watches. In computing the itive times of places differing in Cegetre fact a must be considered: | of rotation of the carth is from west | bi past. (2) A completo revolution of the | fs arih on its axis takes 24 hours. (3) Noon ccurs ct the same timo at all ea on he game meridian. Henco (1) — ast of a certain town have noon beforo » and places west, after it. (2) The ifference of time is found by reckoning minutes for each deyree “of longitude pparating the places, irrespective of the atitude. If it be 9 p.m. Monday, at se Melbourne 145° east, the ime till 6.40 a.m. Tuesday, while at few Orleans, 90° west, the time wili be p-m. Monday. For convenience all laces in the British Isles keep Green wich ime, France takes the time from Paris, rhile Germany and Switzerland reckon ccording to central European time, which; one hour earlicr than that at Green rich. Soo “ Relative Times” in Indez. [s. 300]