The Nautical Encyclopedia

Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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Standard Time

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Time shown by a clock, which is regulated to mean solar time, which see.

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2026 Editor's Note: Standard time was brand new — American railroads invented the zone system in 1883, eight years before this book, and the world's clocks have kept railway-and-navigator's time ever since. See standard time. (Ed: BR 2026-06-19)

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