Hejinian writes on "nationally applicable time standards" (29) and the way time was "standardized, administered, moralized, and [...] militarized" (31)
Western Union's "selling of time" (beginning 1877)
a model of standardized time proposed by railroads takes effect in 1883, superseding Western Union's local time
see "the day of two noons," November 18, 1883
or see Michael O'Malley's Keeping Watch: A History of American Time