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Those in the UK might enjoy a documentary screened on BBC2 at the weekend and available on iPlayer for 28 days:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... son-2-time

'How we got to now. 2. Time: From submariners who live on an 18-hour day to the railway clerk who fought to standardise time zones, and the cobbler who invented the first cheap watch, innovation expert Steven Johnson discovers the surprising journey of time in our lives. He locates the unsung heroes whose ideas transformed our world of time from the sundial to clocks accurate to billionths of a second.'

Very absorbing documentary: Galileo and pendulums, Christiaan Huygens' pendulum clock, John Harrison and the marine chronometer, Aaron Dennison's Waltham watch factory and the $13 soldier's watch, a $750,000 Patek Philippe minute repeater, railway time, William Allen and the General Time Convention, GMT, atomic time etc etc.

The video is only viewable in the UK for some unknown reason.

That's why I started the post with 'Those in the UK might enjoy' etc.

(The BBC is funded by a licence fee so various rights agreements prevent it streaming overseas.)

There are ways to view online from overseas if you do a google search

Yep, get a VPN proxy server service that will make you look like you are a UK Internet user.
Had to resort to these tricks when I was based in Beijng in order to use Youtube, Feacebook, etc...
Where there is a will, there is a way

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"It is just a matter of time!"

Series has just started here in Oz on our national broadcaster. First episode was on Clean. A few more episodes to go till we get to Time. Or so it would seem. Can't wait.

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Jim

"You have Control".