Why did the US split into time zones?

Answer 1

The reason boils down to the fact that wherever people are and wherever

they go, they like to do things such as wake up, go to work, come home,

have dinner, watch TV, and go to bed, at roughly the same time on the clock

AND when the sun is roughly at the same place in the sky ... high, low, or

not in the sky at all.

If everybody's clock reads the same, then the population of our country has

two choices:

-- EITHER everybody gets up and goes to work an hour or two after the sun

rises, which is a different time every couple of states across the country,

-- OR everybody gets up and goes to work at the same time, which means that

some people always have to get up and go to work when it's dark outside, and

go to bed when it's still light.