The View of Time is a best-selling history book published by Tianjin Science and Technology Press on February 20 19, and the author is Simon Garfield of Britain. In the past, all countries and regions adopted their own time standards. Why do we have universal standard time now?

With the development of timing technology and tools, what changes have taken place in the fields of film, music, art and industry? Time has changed from a passive tool to an important standard to measure value. Can we get rid of the shackles of time? Now we are always anxious because of lack of time, so is timing a good thing for modern people?

Through the discussion of calendar, watch industry, industry, movies, music and other fields, View of Time tells the history of time evolution that Einstein and Hawking didn't tell you, and tells the evolution and development of time in the 250 years after the industrial revolution, and how it changed human work and life.

This book also takes us to deeply explore and reflect on the changes in the relationship between human beings and time in the 250 years after the industrial revolution. Before the industrial revolution, time was passive. After the industrial revolution, time became active, and gradually became the protagonist of our life, and even became the only standard to measure value.

Time management has become an important criterion to measure success, punctuality has become the default requirement of people, and efficiency has become the main battlefield of industrial competition, which was unimaginable before the industrial revolution. Simon Garfield tells us through this book that with the development of society and technology, we have gradually fallen into the shackles and shackles of time, and we should get rid of the shackles and become the masters of time again.