apr 19, 1883 - Railroads Create Time Zones

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These timelines were created so that railway conductors could have a reliable way of telling time at any given moment, because standardized time made time different between every city, for example, Botson was a few minutes ahead of New York city, because they set the clock to be whenever the Sun was directly overhead, which only works for that one city

The date I put on this entry was when the New York times reported in this decision by the joint effort of railroad companies, the change didn't completely take effect until the end of the year

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