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sebastialonso 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone

Related to the subject, can anyone recommend a book about timezones? Not a technical, programming book, but one with the history of time zones and curious use cases?

noleary 8 months ago [–]

It is not exactly what you're looking for, but long ago I read this book about the invention of the naval chronometer:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(book)

It's generally pretty well-regarded and closely related.

wbl 8 months ago | | [–]

Revolution in Time is drier but still interesting and covers up past the quartz crisis starting from Babylon.

sebastialonso 7 months ago | | [–]

Thanks a lot!

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