TIME 



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TIMROD 



Centerville it is not yet noon at Bordertown, ten 

 miles west, and it is past noon a few miles 

 east. To have a different time for every few 

 miles would prove embarrassing; therefore men 

 devised a plan by which all people in a cer- 

 tain east-and-west district should accept as 

 their true time the time of a city on a certain 

 degree of longitude. Some sections accordingly 

 set their clocks by Washington time, some by 

 Detroit time, others by Chicago, or Denver, or 

 San Francisco time. 



In Europe all the western part of the conti- 

 nent adopted the time at the observatory of 

 Greenwich, England; the central part very gen- 

 erally adopted the sun time of Berlin, and Rus- 

 sia that of Petrograd. This plan worked very 

 well for many years, but it was found eventu- 

 ally in America that there were too many 

 standards. In one depot in Cleveland or To- 

 ronto, for instance, the clock of one railroad 

 might register noon, while the clocks of others 

 using the same station might have different 

 standards and declare the hour to be 12:30 or 

 11:45. To unify time for the traveling public 

 the great modern convenience called standard 

 time was adopted for the United States and 

 Canada; it is described in an article under that 

 title. 



There is one meridian from which all world 

 time calculations are reckoned, and this basal 

 line is the meridian which passes through 

 Greenwich, England. When it is noon there it 

 is midnight exactly 180 east or west ; for every 

 15 east or west of Greenwich the time is one 

 hour later or earlier. This is further explained 

 in the article LONGITUDE AND TIME. E.D.F. 



Consult Boodin's Time and Reality; Nichols' 

 Psychology of Time. 



Related Subjects. In connection with this 

 discussion of time the reader may refer to the 

 following topics in these volumes. The articles 

 on the various months and the days of the week 

 may also be consulted. 



Calendar Longitude and Time 



Christian Era Minute 



Chronology Month 



Chronometer Nones 



Clock Olympiad 



Day Seasons 



Epoch Sidereal Time 



Hegira Standard Time 



Hourglass Sundial 



Ides Watch 



International Date Line Week 

 Leap Year Tear 



TIME, STANDAED. See STANDARD TIME. 



TIMOTHY, tim'othi, a coworker with the 

 Apostle Paul, born probably in Lystra, in Asia 

 Minor, of a Greek father and a Jewish mother. 



Eunice (77 Timothy I, 5), who instructed him 

 from a child in the Old Testament Scriptures. 

 Doubtless converted to Christianity on the first 

 missionary journey of Paul, Timothy joined 

 him on his second journey and continued to 

 the end of the Apostle's life his trusted asso- 

 ciate and friend, succeeding him as overseer of 

 the Church at Ephesus. He is believed to have 

 been martyred, near the end of the first cen- 

 tury. 



The First and Second Epistles to Timothy, 

 with the Epistle to Titus, are known as Pastoral 

 Epistles. They contain rules for church gov- 

 ernment, the qualifications of church officers, 

 warnings against false teaching and counsel to 

 faithful work and the endurance of persecution. 

 There is a sharp discussion among critics as to 

 whether these epistles are the work of Paul 

 himself or of some later writer. 



TIMOTHY, or CAT'S -TAIL, a widely-culti- 

 vated grain, one of the most valuable of all 

 fodder grasses. The name timothy was applied 

 in honor of Timothy Hanson, who introduced 

 it among the colonists of the Carolinas in 1720. 

 In England it is called cat's-tail, and in New 

 England and New York, herd's grass. This 

 grain is probably the most common meadow 

 grass, and it is greatly relished by stock. It 

 reaches a height of one to three feet, the 

 slender stems bearing cylindrical spikes of mi- 

 nute, tightly-packed florets. Although timothy 

 and clover are frequently planted together they 

 do not ripen at the same time. 



In Canada, particularly in Ontario, great 

 crops of timothy are raised. The yearly pro- 

 duction in the United States is about 18,000,000 

 tons, the average yield per acre being 1.22 tons, 

 valued at $10.46 each, and making a total ap- 

 proximate value of $188,000,000. Of timothy 

 and clover mixed, the annual production is 

 about 35,000,000 tons, averaging 1.27 tons per 

 acre, the yearly value of the mixed crops 

 amounting to more than $357,000,000. See 

 CLOVER; HAY. 



TIM 'ROD, HENRY (1829-1867), one of the 

 best lyric poets of the Southern states, born in 

 Charleston, S. C. After studying at the Uni- 

 versity of Georgia and in a law office, he ac- 

 cepted a position as tutor in the family of a 

 cotton planter, finding leisure in that position 

 to develop his taste for literature. During the 

 War of Secession he acted as correspondent of 

 the Charleston Mercury and was also assistant 

 editor of the South Carolinian, published in 

 Columbia. An attack upon this town by Fed- 

 eral troops broke up his home and reduced him 



