The History of Timekeeping (Radio Edit)
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The History of Daylight Saving Time
The idea of time zones was put forward by a Canadian railway engineer called Sanford Fleming. He had the idea of dividing the world into 24 one-hour time zone. It's first proposed by a New Zealand postman called George Vernon Hudson in the 1890s. William Willett died in 1915 having failed to get this idea taken on. Spring forward fall back and we've been doing it ever since. You could literally travel 35 miles between Moundsville, West Virginia and Steubenville, Ohio and you would go through seven time zones in 35 miles. The time is it. We don't care about your rules.
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