Percy writes:
Can anyone explain what's going on?
Sure.
The Brits invented time so that their railways timetables would make sense. Before then each town kept its own time which were all different. But we then found that we couldn't make our trains run to time no matter how many clocks we had.
Now we just make the best of it by messing everyone else's time up. I live right next to the Grenwich Meridian; every time I pass it I give it a good kick and it fucks up somebody's clock on the other side of the world.
We might not have an Empire anymore, but we get to say what time you'll be on a semi-random basis.
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