Living in Local Time

""For millennia, people have measured time based on the position of the sun; it was noon when the sun was highest in the sky. Sundials were used well into the Middle Ages, at which time mechanical clocks began to appear. Cities would set their town clock by measuring the position of the sun, but every city would be on a slightly different time.

The time indicated by the apparent sun on a sundial is called Apparent Solar Time, or true local time. The time shown by the fictitious sun is called Mean Solar Time, or local mean time when measured in terms of any longitudinal meridian.""
""Standard time in time zones was instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads on November 18, 1883. Prior to that, time of day was a local matter, and most cities and towns used some form of local solar time, maintained by a well-known clock (on a church steeple, for example, or in a jeweler's window). ""

http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/d.html

You would see the main character in an America western getting off the train and setting his pocket watch [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_watch].

I, for one, still embrace local time, at least for the changing of the seasons. When my poor, neglected Wild Dogwood tree blooms, it is Spring.

It has happened, Happy Spring, everyone.

[Kerri]

Beautiful

[bkb in the city]

nice shot

[Cathie]

Beautiful shot. I love the simplicity of dogwood.

[Judi]

Lovely spring shot. My dogwoods don't bloom until May. I don't know why they are so late.

[J A Byrdlip]

@judis Depends where you geographically live. Either with being within two miles of The Sound, being in a valley keeps in cooler then the land around me, about a 200 foot difference. Plus the air off the water comes up the valley, so its blooms when it does.