A large wood and metal ball used by ships' crews as a visual aid to set their clocks by has been reinstalled at the top of ...

Starting in 1836, a former Royal Observatory employee named John Belville charged people an annual fee to use his pocket watch. Once a week, he’d come by and visit them and share the time on his watch ...

Because astronomers have divided the globe into 24 time zones, using one clock time worldwide is impractical. That's why the ...

The clocks go forward on Sunday, marking the beginning of British Summer Time (BST). This marks the end of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and will mean longer, lighter evenings from next week.

From sundials to atomic clocks, our understanding of time has become a lot more accurate as technological developments allowed us to measure it more precisely. Much more than helping us arrive on time ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In 1847 the railways agreed to use GMT across the entire network. Therefore, the distribution of Greenwich Mean Time via telegraph signals became absolutely crucial. But not everyone could connect ...

It led to the creation of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Show more In 1676, Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed was looking to find a way to determine longitude at sea, so ships could know their position ...