Show norwegian esian time english tourists in norway are reported to be not a little perplexed by the eccentricities of norwegian time at home they are accustomed to a uniform time calculated for the meridian of greenwich but in norway every town adopts ita own meridian hence tourists watches are perpetually appearing to wrong the telegraph offices and the railways that happen to be in connection with regulate themselves it is true by mean time but this only increases the confusion for all the other railways together with the steamers start punctually by local time to add still further to his bewilderment no sooner does the traveler cross the frontier than the swedish railway time which is eighteen minutes different from time comes into in bergen unfortunate strangers who have set their watches by the town or postoffice post office clock are constantly rushing to the telegraph office only to find that it 1 closed in accordance with time the unlucky british tourist vh a spends so much of his time and mone n norway in these days might fairly ask for a little more consideration the are asking for a uniform to the meridian cf new york recorder |