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Time Zones in North America - Nov.18

Postby Felix/FFDS » Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:34 am

November 18

1883 Railroads create the first time zones


At exactly noon on this day, American and Canadian railroads begin using four continental time zones to end the confusion of dealing with thousands of local times. The bold move was emblematic of the power shared by the railroad companies.



This leads me to ask the question - when were global time zones set?
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Re: Time Zones in North America - Nov.18

Postby Theis » Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:39 am

This leads me to ask the question - when were global time zones set?


What timezone are you thinking of?
when, in what timezone ;D ;D ;D

No seriusly, heres a link
scrool down to history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone

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Re: Time Zones in North America - Nov.18

Postby flyboy 28 » Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:01 pm

Just so happens this falls on my birthday. I knew I caused trouble. :)
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