What time is it? 

When you check your phone to see what time it is in another country, when airlines synchronize international flight schedules, when financial markets trade across continents—all of this traces back to a long night spent in a rural railway station by a Brother Mason, who refused to accept that the world's approach to timekeeping was good enough.

“Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time.” Did Roger Waters know who Sandford Fleming was? It’s Minnesota Masonic Histories & Mysteries.