Why isn’t this a popular thing?

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    1 month ago

    Time zones were the result of railroads getting towns to abandon their town specific clocks because of railroads.

    • hansolo@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      This really fails to acknowledge the hodegpode, anything goes chaos that was towns choosing their own noon based around someone with a watch and a bell looking at the shadow on a stick a few times a year.

      Sometimes standardization isn’t simply a terror induced by capitalism, and has accrual benefits.