What time is it?

Ever imagine what was it like before we live our lives on the 24 hours clock time?

Clark Blaise, Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time (2000) could give us some answers.

In this book he traces how power relation among European countries in the 19th century resulted in the adoption of the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Of course, GMT was used in the colonies.

Southeast Asian countries, one by one, followed the GMT from around them late 19th century onwards.


GMT reflected that power centre of the world in the 19th century; London.

We are still adopting GMT today.

See? that's why we have to learn history.