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each town had a different time based on its location, it became impossible for the railroads to accurately determine when the train would be arriving at one town so the railroads went to the US gov. and time zones were created.
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∙ 14y agoUp until 1883, communities in the USA set their own local time. People set their clocks by the sun. But the railroads expanded and people began to travel more and to travel faster, this inexact method of measuring time began causing problems. So people set up a time zone system because it was difficult to establish train schedules that made sense.
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∙ 14y agoso that everyone can have roughly similar schedules.
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∙ 13y agoOriginally, to facilitate scheduling multiple trains on single tracks.
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∙ 12y agoBecause the time of day is always different in every area of the planet Earth so time zones are used to know what time it really is in that area
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∙ 13y agoTo know the time of the day and to know each others time. Does that help?
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∙ 7y agoSo people could tell when it's mid day in Another Country, and so people can know when someone from another country needs to know the time.
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Why was the use of standardized time and time zones introduced and who did it benefit?
It benefited railroad companies and train travelers.
Who created world time zones?
UK
What year were the world time zones created?
1865
What year were time zones created in the US?
The United States started using standard time zones on November 18, 1883.
Who created the time zones for the US?
A railroad engineer named Sir Sandford Fleming invented the Standard Time Zones in 1878 but they were not accepted until 1884.
Why did the US start using standardized time and time zones?
sychronize train schedules
Why was the use of standardized time and time zones introduced and who did it benefit?
It benefited railroad companies and train travelers.
Who created world time zones?
UK
What year were the world time zones created?
1865
What year were time zones created in the US?
The United States started using standard time zones on November 18, 1883.
Who benefited from the use of standardized time and time zones?
Everyone who uses time benefited from the use of standardized time and time zones, for one could save himself or herself the trouble by knowing when they should do what they have to do at a particular time mostly when crossing to different zones, for example they now got to know how long it could take them to reach some where and at what time they could get to that place counting in the time of the end point or zone, this made appointments much easier and planning better and timely increasing time management opportunity. For example not to get late when going some where for an important meeting some one had to do some math according to their destination time frame or standard time zone which was guess work before the standardization of time and time zones.
Time zones were created because of what form of transportation?
Railroads.
Who created the time zones for the US?
A railroad engineer named Sir Sandford Fleming invented the Standard Time Zones in 1878 but they were not accepted until 1884.
When was Zones - band - created?
Zones - band - was created in 1977.
When was Your Erroneous Zones created?
Your Erroneous Zones was created in 1976.
What hepled railroads establish dependable schedules?
In the United States, the creation of standardized time zones greatly improved the ability to schedule train times and to manage train movements.
Are different time zones caused by the earth spinning on its axis?
yes, but time zones were actually created by man so that we were all operating at the same time, initially for the train service
