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Nov 18th, 2005 at 9:34am

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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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Reply #1 - Nov 18th, 2005 at 9:39am

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


What timezone are you thinking of?
when, in what timezone Grin Grin Grin

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

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Reply #2 - Nov 23rd, 2005 at 9:01pm

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