Nov. 18, 1883: Railroad Time Goes Coast to Coast

1883: U.S. and Canadian railways adopt five standardized time zones to replace the multiplicity of local times in communities across the continent. Everyone would soon be operating on “railroad time.” Noon on a well-made, properly paced sundial is whenever the sun is highest right there. The advent of mechanical timekeeping in the Middle Ages didn’t […]

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Today in History: November 18, 1883: Time zones standardized in Canada and USA, by Peter Flom