. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . I. The Forum and Capitol. 2. (leneral View from the Summit of the Theatre. TIMGAD —TIMOR or sunset, as given in the almanacs. At mid-way points, Cincinnati, for example, the timeused is necessarily in error by almost half anhour in one direction or the other. But the in-convenience thus arising is very slight. Con-sequently, if any one determines his time by thepassage of the sun across the meridian, he mustcorrect it according to his longi
. The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biograhy, geography, commerce, etc., of the world . I. The Forum and Capitol. 2. (leneral View from the Summit of the Theatre. TIMGAD —TIMOR or sunset, as given in the almanacs. At mid-way points, Cincinnati, for example, the timeused is necessarily in error by almost half anhour in one direction or the other. But the in-convenience thus arising is very slight. Con-sequently, if any one determines his time by thepassage of the sun across the meridian, he mustcorrect it according to his longitude, from hisstandard meridian, in order to ohtain the stan-dard time. The inconvenience tlius arising isvery small compared with the advantages of theuniformity to which the system gives rise. As railways are extended over the countrythe public depends for its time less and less onactual observation of the sun, and more uponthe railways. The latter get their time fromseveral of the leading observatories in variousparts of the country, which are supplied withclocks accurately corrected by astronomical ob-servations. Every day at noon, or some oth
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