128 TIME-RECKONING. 
APPENDIX No. 2. 
The application of the proposed Scheme of Time-reckoning to the practice of 
Daily Life. 
Reference has been made to the means by which cosmopolitan time 
may be indicated by ordinary time-pieces. This may be accomplished 
by inscribing the proper letters on the dials of clocks and watches 
now in use. A still better expedient would be to substitute new 
dials, such as Fig. 5. In this, the letters which represent the night 
hours in any particular locality are on a dark ground. 
By a simple expedient of this description it could be practicable, 
without superceding the old time-keepers, to secure the advantages 
of the new scheme, in any country of comparatively limited extent. 
Clocks and watches in use might thus be utilized and made to 
show cosmopolitan, in addition to local time. It would be only 
necessary to prepare railway and steam-boat time-tables in accordance 
with the new system, to bring its advantages into common use. 
But this would apply only to stationary clocks, or to watches in use 
in countries limited in extent. The improvement would not be 
general until time-keepers for ordinary purposes, and especially 
watches, were constructed on new principles. A general change 
could only be gradually effected; but as there are hundreds of 
thousands of watches and chronometers made every year, in the event 
of the subject being deemed worthy of attention, it would be well for 
manufacturers to consider the expediency of introducing some change 
in the construction of them. 
There are various methods by which the principles set forth 
may be applied, and these will readily suggest themselves to prac- 
