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[โ€“] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You know the system before timezones was way worse, right? Every town had their own time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

That problem happened because there was no way to travel from town to town quickly so if the clocks were off nobody cared. The trains changed that.