The History of Timekeeping
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The History of Time Zones
The idea of time zones was put forward by a canadian railway engineer called sandford fleming ye. He had the idea of dividing the world into 24 one hour time zones, so you could add an hour to the clock every 15 degrees west and remove an hour when you go east. Time zones don't map on to geography, or to politics or to borders. China, for instance, as tha country, is five hours of time wide, but it's only got one time zone, which is berjing time. It's saying the whole time of this huge country is going to be the time from the centre in berjing. But the political centre is way ye literally, it's
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