Marking Time

Abstract

We experience time, like space, as something through which we journey. We speak of `looking forward' to an event in the future, and `looking back' on an event in the past. We describe the clock as `put forward' at the beginning of local summer time and `put back' at the end. When we say that an appointment has been `put back' we can get confused: some will take that as earlier, i.e. `back in time', others as later, i.e. `further away in time'. Nevertheless both parties to the confusion use words of location and of distance to speak about time.