128 TIME-RECKONING. 



APPENDIX No. 2. 



The application of the proposed Scheme of Time-rechoning to the practice of 

 Dally 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 secui'e 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 untU time-keepers for ordinary purposes, and especially 

 watches, were constnicted on new principles. A general change 

 could only be gradually ejQTected ; 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- 



