Best Answer: The biggest reason was that Britain started the Industrial Revolution earlier than other countries. Because they had newer technology, they could sell it to other countries to make money, and also use it to conquer other places. They were also particularly dominant in the African slave trade.
Flextime (also spelled flexitime [British English], flexi-time) is a flexible hours schedule that allows workers to alter workday start and finish times.
Browse Definitions: Zulu (Zulu time) Share this item with your network: Zulu (short for Zulu time) is used in the military and in navigation generally as a term for Universal Coordinated Time (UCT), sometimes called Universal Time Coordinated ( UTC ) or Coordinated Universal Time (but abbreviated UTC), and formerly called Greenwich Mean Time.