The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Between the advent of railway ...

It is easy to check your local time, but the government says it may be harder to find a map with the correct times across the U.S. The inspector general for the U.S. Department of Transportation ...

Indiana will once again move to Standard Time with most of the country this weekend. Officially, at 2:00 a.m. Sunday, November 4, clocks will be turned back one hour to 1:00 a.m. The turning back of ...

This week my colleague Laura Anderson made the case for why other countries should adopt Spain’s eating schedule. The fact that people in Spain stay up so late is partially the result of a fluky ...