In October he was asked for suggestions regarding the establishment of a "Standard Time" applicable to the railway traffic in the United States: he replied as follows: 1881, Oct.
I first comment upon your expression of "Standard Time.
SIR, I have to acknowledge your letter of October 17, introducing to my notice the difficulty which appears to be arising in America regarding a "Standard Time," for extensive use throughout N.
This led to the present system of standard time; to the system whereby employes must compare watches with standard clocks; must have watches inspected regularly and record taken of same; must compare watches and register before trips.
The method of standard time determination is so rigorous that the worker cannot figure on curtailing his output.
Shop conditions must be right and every facility given the workmen to attain standard time or better, including teaching him how to do the work in standard time.
Standard time in Japan is nine hours earlier than Greenwich time.
This mixed up method was followed by "standard time," with which we are all pretty well acquainted.
It is quite evident that this cannot be reached regularly by every worker, and this is taken into consideration when determining the standard time.
This efficiency is the ratio between reward time and standard time, and that is why we say the efficiency point for reward is 75 per cent.
It is quite evident, therefore, that this time cannot be reached regularly by every worker, and this is taken into consideration when determining the standard time--i.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "standard time" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
