Excerpt from Time-Reckoning for the Twentieth Century There is undoubtedly a growing feeling in many quarters in favor of the 24-hour system. It is reported to be used with great advantage on the whole of the cables and other lines of the Eastern Telegraph Com pany, and its connections extending from England through Europe and the Mediterranean to Egypt, and from Egypt to South Africa, India, China, and Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.