The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-05

is determined by the meridian of each
locality. Throughout Russia, st. Pet
ersburg time is used for telegraphic
purposes, and each place has its own
local time besides. In Portugal the
country towns keep their local time
very roughly, but Lisbon and the rail
road and telegraph services have the
time of the Tapada Royal Observa-
tory There is considerable confusion
in the Netherlands. and If ones watch
does not agree with the town clock as
he travels through the land It doesn't
follow that he has a poor timekeeper.
In the railroad stations, telegraph and
post offices the exact time of the
Greenwich Observatory will be found.
In many towns Amsterdam time is in
use, and it is about twenty minutes
faster than reliable clocks in many
other towns that use Greenwich time;
and still other towns use their own
local time. so the Netherlands do not
lack for variety in time standards.
Every place i'm Newfoundland uses
st. Johns time for all purposes, except
ing Hearts Content, which has special
privileges as cable station. For local
purposes this little town employs local
tine. Every day it receives a signal
from London giving the Greenwich
time, and as the difference in time be-
tween the two points is hours, 80
minutes and 80 seconds, it is only nee
essary to keep the local clocks that
much slow on GreenwiHh time to have
the exact local time. But in the cable
Ct!ice all foreign business Is trans
mitted with Greenwich time.
IN ENGLAND.
In Great Britain Greenwich mean
time is the standard, and is used Cor
a., purposes nearly everywhere. Among
the few exceptions is the city of Can
terbury, which uses a time about four
minutes fast on Greenwich, and clocks
at few railroad stations are kept
one or two minutes fast. Ireland uses
the time of Dublin. and so all the
clocks in the island are % minutes %
seconds slow on Greenwich time.
The official time throughout Argen-
tina is that of the city of Cordova,
which is telegraphed every day to con-
trol the timepieces in the various citt c.
1t is used everywhere in the railrol
and telegraph offices, but many citi-
zens in the provinces prefer to use
local time of doubtful accuracy. The
people of the Hawaiian Islands try to
keep their tmepieCes 10 hours 80 min
utes slower than those of Greenwich
and call this standard time. At Be-
lize, British Honduras. the clock over
the Court House, which furnishes the
time for the town, is usually regulated
~ the time kept by the ships in the
harbor. The town of Nukualofa,
which fun Inishes the time for the en-
tire Tonga group, is in west longitude,
but bee use all business relations, eX-
| cept with Samoa, are with placcs u
east longituce, the east longitude time
| for the DAY of the week and month is
kept.
AMERICAN VARIETY.
We have plenty of time variety in
| cur own country. For example, amy
town that happens to be on the Ovid
| ing line between two of the hOur-:im
zones will haze its own tine and, N
| ait ititE. at the railroad station tacrn
| VIII be two tir1ee. differing by an hour,
one for the west and the other for the
east bound trains. The city of FL Pas
| co labors under the embarrassment of
| four kinds of railroad time. It has
/ central time for the Atlantic section OF
| the Southern Pacific Pacific time for
| the Pacific section of the same road,
Mountain time for the Santa Fe and
| city of Mexico time for the Mexican
| Central, all the railroads of Mexico be-
ing run on the time of the capital.