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Time Zones

Introduction The Earth is currently divided into 24 major time zones so that everyone in the world can be on roughly similar schedules (noon being roughly when the sun is highest in the sky).

Who came up with the idea of time zones? The idea to divide the Earth into time zones was proposed by the Canadian railway planner and engineer Sir Sanford Fleming (1827 - 1915) in the 1870’s.

When were time zones first used? Time zones were first used on November 18, 1883 by railroads in order to make their schedules less confusing. World time zones were determined in 1884, at an international conference in Washington, D.C. Each of the 24 world time zones are about 15 degrees wide and differ by one hour.

Early Time Keeping Until about 100 years ago, each city set its clocks to local time -- noon was the time when the Sun was at its highest in the sky, as viewed from each city. Neighboring cities needed to set their clocks differently. For Example, when it was 8:00 in New York City, it was 8:12 in Boston (Boston is about 3 degrees east of New York). Before modern transportation and communication, this difference didn't really matter.

A Need for Synchronized Schedules Once railroads were built, this became very awkward. Train schedules needed to be written using common time settings that everybody agreed to, so the U.S. railroad companies adopted the idea of time zones. This was soon extended internationally, with the world being divided into 24 time zones, each one a long strip from North Pole to South Pole, about 15 degrees of longitude wide. All the people in one time zone would set their clock the same way.

World Time Zones