How A Missed Train In 1876 Led To The Adoption Of Standard Time [zero hedge]
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How A Missed Train In 1876 Led To The Adoption Of Standard Time Authored by Gerry Bowler via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In July 1876, Sandford Fleming, a Scottish Canadian engineer, was standing on an Irish railway platform fuming —he had misread his timetable, confusing a.m. and p.m., and as a result had missed his train. Spurred by this inconvenience, Fleming began thinking how a 24-hour clock would have made this sort of mistake impossible. But his highly inventive mind did not stop there: he had visions of worldwide time zones, 24 of them around the globe, each comprising 15 degrees of longitude and each an hour different. The Hon. Donald Smith drives home the last spike for the Canadian Pacific Railway in Eagle Pass, B.C., on Nov. 7, 1885. The tall man standing behind him with the top hat is Sir Sandford Fleming, the father of standard time. The Canadian Press/National Archives of Canada The notion of standardized time would be an extremely valuable one in an age of unprece
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