American and Canadian railroads enacted time zones — a concept that schedules all aspects of life today — on this day in history, Nov. 18, 1883.
The rail industry's creation of time zones was a brazen attempt to bend time to its will.
It brought sanity to a sprawling patchwork system of local timekeeping based on the ancient method of following the sun, the system used since human time began. https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/this-day-history-nov-18-1883-north-american-railroads-create-time-zones-reshape-life
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