GDG- Re: Standard time

[Biggsk at aol.com]

Bob Huddleston writes:


>>>>Standard Time was established in the United States  and Canada on 18 
November 1883, in order to standardize railroad schedules.  Before that 
communities used local sun time, and the military, when it was  concerned about exact 
time, would have used the Washington Naval Observatory  time. However, no one 
really cared about exact time. That is a 20th Century  Phenomena. The one 
exception to that was ships trying to locate their  longitude. There is a useful 
discussion at  http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/us_tzones.html  >>>>



Someone in an old issue of Blue & Gray Magazine wrote an essay on time  in 
the Civil War.  He stated, for example, that the State of Georgia back  then had 
6 different time zones, which just had to be a nightmare for train  schedules 
to make!!!!
 
Greg Biggs



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