When was time com created

Christmas Gift Subscription. Subscription Offers. The Perfect Gift. Latest Issue. About TIME. Why Subscribe? International Home. Trial Offers. Subscription Gift Offers. All Subscription Offers. R15 Trial Offer. Current Affairs. TIME Railroad managers tried to address the problem by establishing railroad time zones, but this was only a partial solution to the problem.

Operators of the new railroad lines needed a new time plan that would offer a uniform train schedule for departures and arrivals. Four standard time zones for the continental United States were introduced on November 18, Britain, which already adopted its own standard time system for England, Scotland, and Wales, helped gather international consensus for global time zones in Various meridians were used for longitudinal references among different countries before the late s, and the Greenwich Meridian was the most popular of these.

Moreover, the shipping industry would benefit from having just one prime meridian. Many people informally recognized the Greenwich Meridian as the prime meridian before the International Meridian Conference in Sir Sandford Fleming was one of the key players in developing a satisfactory worldwide system of keeping time.

He advocated the adoption of a standard or mean time and hourly variations from that following established time zones. He also helped convene the International Meridian Conference in , where the international standard time system was adopted. The proposal stated that the prime meridian for longitude and timekeeping should be one that passes through the center of the transit instrument at the Greenwich Observatory in the United Kingdom UK.

The international hour time-zone system grew from this, in which all zones referred back to GMT on the prime meridian. Is the prime meridian in the wrong place? GMT was the universal reference standard — all other times being stated as so many hours ahead or behind it — but the French continued to treat Paris as the prime meridian until Even so, the French defined their civil time as Paris Mean Time minus 9 minutes and 21 seconds.

In other words, this was the same time as GMT. Standard time , in terms of time zones, was not established in United States law until the Act of March 19, The act also established daylight saving time in the nation. Daylight saving time was repealed in , but standard time in time zones remained in law, with the Interstate Commerce Commission ICC having the authority over time zone boundaries.