On the hour, every hour

How the world’s clocks and geographic coordinates came to be set by a small borough of London

THE PICK OF THIS WEEK’S RADIO

IN PRAISE OF PODS I found the ...

One summer’s evening in the days before internet weather forecasting, I was deeply involved in the after-race ‘do’ following a Solent Old Gaffers event. In the 1970s these regattas drew entrants large

What time is it? It’s later than you think. Tempus fugit. Or, as the sundial inscription so accurately but perhaps more optimistically explains: “I only count the sunny hours.” You know full well that

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