The Times They Are a-Changin'

As chance would have it I recently took photographs of two very different timepieces.  An Edinburgh clock tower and a macro photo of a pocket watch taken in the studio.

It was the Fleming that didn't go to Kilmarnock Academy that is credited as being the 'Father of Standard Time. ' Sir Sandford Fleming was born in Kirkaldy and emigrated to Canada in 1845 at the age of seventeen. Sir Sandford Fleming first worked as a surveyor and later became a railway engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The Canadian Scot advocated the adoption of a standard time or mean time and hourly variations from that according to established time zones. He was instrumental in convening the 1884 International Prime Meridian Conference in Washington, at which the system of international standard time that we use today was first adopted.