US EditionHow a Missed Train in 1876 Led to the Adoption of Standard Time
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How a Missed Train in 1876 Led to the Adoption of Standard Time
Commentary In July 1876, Sandford Fleming, a Scottish Canadian engineer, was standing on an Irish railway platform fuming—he had misread his timetable, confusing a.m. and p.m., and as a result had missed his train. Spurred by this inconvenience, Fleming began thinking how a 24-hour clock would have made this sort of mistake impossible. But his highly inventive mind did not stop there: he had visions of worldwide time zones, 24 of them around the…
How a Missed Train in 1876 Led to the Adoption of Standard Time - The Thinking Conservative News
In July 1876 Sandford Fleming confused a.m. and p.m., and as a result he began thinking how a 24-hour clock would have made this sort of mistake impossible. The post How a Missed Train in 1876 Led to the Adoption of Standard Time appeared first on The Thinking Conservative News.
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