[LEAPSECS] time for HRH Victoria

[Steve Allen]

In the year 1900 E. WALTER MAUNDER, F.R.A.S
produced a treasure of a work titled
The ROYAL OBSERVATORY GREENWICH
currently available online at
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/bookman/library/ROG/INDEX.HTM

In chapter VI is this quote

    There are few questions more frequently put than, 'What time is it?'
    'Can you tell me the true time?  'A stickler for exactitude might
    reply, 'What kind of time do you mean?'  'Do you mean solar or
    sidereal time?'  'Apparent time or mean time?'  'Local time or
    standard time?'  There are all these six kinds of time, but it is only
    within the last two generations, within, indeed, the reign of our
    Sovereign, Queen Victoria, that the subject of the differences of most
    of these kinds of time has become of pressing importance to any but
    theorists.

Proliferation of time scales predates the atomic resonator.
It's a thing that humans do.

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