“Time - it is found woven into our language and yet why do we use multiples of twelve for various time periods? Why have we not produced a metric clock? Learn the fascinating answers to these and other questions and discover why punctuality and the humble timepieces of yesterday and today have created more than a few funny stories.”

Anthony Poulton-Smith is a freelance journalist and author, who currently has 80 books published and many articles, crosswords, puzzles and quizzes - together with some 1,700 articles and over two hundred books as a ghost-writer.