Man made Day Light Savings Time. God made Standard Time. Who are you going to go with?
That’s about the silliest thing I ever read. All clocks are manmade.
No. It was the railroads. He probably made high-noon time though.
Canada’s Sir Sandford Fleming played a crucial role in developing a global system for setting time. He apparently became an advocate of time zones after spending an uncomfortable night in a railway station because of time confusion. Fleming, who came to Canada from Scotland in 1845, was Canada’s foremost railway surveyor and construction engineer of the 19th-century.
Fleming instigated the initial efforts that led to the adoption of the time zones used by the railways in 1883 and the global time zones we use today. Fleming advocated dividing the world into 24 time zones, each equal to 15o of longitude and to one hour, beginning at the Greenwich Meridian (0o longitude). He was instrumental in convening the International Prime Meridian Conference in Washington in 1884. Representatives of 25 nations from Europe, North and South America and Asia attended; all adopted Fleming’s system of international standard time. Fleming did not invent standardized time, but he is the father of international standard time.
Let s go back to setting all times locally to when the sun is at its midpoint.