Measuring time using the Earth’s rotation was always an imprecise business, so now we do it using the ‘tick’ of an atom

The railway brought us sensible time zones the world over, but also some weird anomalies

It’s time for an upgrade… so Chris Rowlands clocks in with a selection of top tickers for counting the hours in style

YOU KNOW THERE’S something special happening when the room is packed with more Watchworld royalty than a Friday night in Geneva’s Hotel Beau-Rivage bar. The evening was all about Ferdinand Berthoud’s

One in three adults in the UK struggles to sleep through the night; among them is writer Nick Pope. Could embracing the multibillion-pound sleep economy fix his night-time woes or would obsessively attempting to crack bedtime cause another problem altogether?

Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com