They offered greater efficiency in production, safety, and scheduling.
The railroads - Apex
There were no time zones anywhere in the world before the United States railroads set up the system. Before time zones all clocks were set to local time based on when the sun reached noon in that town. This made it impossible for the railroads to create workable train schedules throughout their entire system. Time zones made it possible to schedule trains and keep them operating on schedule.
to make their schedules more standard
To save. Daylight.
They always crashed into each other.
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The railroads divided the US into four standard time zones to make their schedules more standard.
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Central Pacific Answer: The time zones were actually started with the railroads. The railroads had to be on time and before the universal time zones were initiated, many towns and states, ETC had their own time and railroads had a big problem trying to keep accurate time. The railroads came up with the idea of having 4 time zones for the united states.
The railroads divided the US into four standard time zones to make their schedules more standard.
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The railroads - Apex
There were no time zones anywhere in the world before the United States railroads set up the system. Before time zones all clocks were set to local time based on when the sun reached noon in that town. This made it impossible for the railroads to create workable train schedules throughout their entire system. Time zones made it possible to schedule trains and keep them operating on schedule.
Sir Sandford Fleming came up with the concept of world time zones in 1879. Charles Dowd was an American who developed a system of time zones for American railroads.
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