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On this day in 1883, railroad companies in the United States and Canada transformed time in both countries, leading to the ground-breaking concept of time zones around the world.

A person may take knowing the local time for granted, but an official review revealed that there is no single, accurate map showing the nation’s time zones and local observance of Daylight ...

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the standard time zone. Each 15° longitude west of this line is an hour earlier than that GMT, while each 15° east is an hour later.

By degrees of longitude Beijing, more than 3,000km to the east, should be about two and a half hours ahead of Kashgar. ... Not all time-zone changes are as extreme as China’s.

June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is ...

The zones were based around the Greenwich Meridian, a line of longitude that runs north-south through the Greenwich Observatory in London. ... The consequences of a single time zone.

North American railroads created time zones to bring sanity to scheduling transcontinental travel on this day in history, Nov. 18, 1883. The system was quickly adopted around the world.