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Re: The BBC is considering time

From: John Corse <corse~at~sfu.ca>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:42:16 -0700 (PDT)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

This could be special pleading but I have always considerd Sandford Fleming to be the proponent and initiator of Time Zones. My special pleading is doubled in that Fleming was born in Scotland and lived in Canada.

Sir Sandford Fleming, KCMG (January 7, 1827 – July 22, 1915) was a Scottish-born Canadian engineer and inventor, known for proposing worldwide standard time zones, Canada's postage stamp, a huge body of surveying and map making, engineering much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, and being a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Royal Canadian Institute, a science organization in Toronto.

cheers, jack corse




----- Original Message -----
From: James Keeline <keeline~at~yahoo.com>
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>
Sent: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:31:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: The BBC is considering time

> The United States first adopted Daylight Savings Time as an energy saving
>measure in World War I. The country dropped it after the war, but Franklin
>Roosevelt reintroduced it during his first administration. I know there are
>some places in the world which refuse to implement it. South Africa is one of
>them. Does anybody know of any others?

>
> Raymond


Arizona and part of Indiana don't observe Daylight Saving Time (singular, not
plural offically).

The notion of time zones rather than a local time was pushed by the railroads in
the US who wanted to have a time standard against which to have their timetables
rather than rely on local time for each community. They developed synchronized
clocks that made use of telegraph signals.

I have also heard it said that Benjamin Franklin first proposed the idea of a
Daylight Saving Time but don't know if this is a myth or not. I'd look it up
(snopes.com or another site) but I'm expecting house guests in a few minutes.

James
Received on Fri 25 Mar 2011 - 20:42:26 IST

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