Railways standardised time zones
- Confusion about the exact time only became a problem in the 1800s, when railroad trains made it possible to travel from one place to the next.
- People were missing trains, and near misses and train collisions started to take place.
- In the US, 300 local time zones existed, but the railroads eventually condensed it down into 100.
- Finally, in 1876, Scottish-born engineer Sir Sandford Fleming devised a system in which the world was divided into 24 time zones, spaced at about 15 degree intervals.
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