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a promise that trains, teachers, and time itself rarely intend to keep
means A schedule listing the times at which events, departures, or activities are planned to happen.
from A transparent English compound: "time" + "table," where "table" means an orderly arrangement of information set out in rows and columns — the same sense as in "multiplication table." That "table" traces back through Old French to Latin "tabula," a flat board or plank, which came to mean a board for writing or displaying figures. So a timetable is, quite literally, time laid out on a board. The word came into use in the 19th century, riding the railways — for what is a railway without the comforting fiction of when trains arrive?
- railway origin
- Standardized clocks exist because trains needed synchronized timetables
- first published
- Britain's 1839 Bradshaw's Guide listed every railway departure
- time zones
- Created in 1883 so timetables could finally agree
- school dread
- Monday morning slots ranked humanity's least loved squares
- theoretical limit
- Generating perfect school timetables is mathematically NP-hard
hogwarts express timetable — fictional schedule from harry potter: departs kings cross 11 a.m. on september 1st