When were world time zones invented, by whom and what method(s) were used to create them?
Standard time happened in England, promoted by Abraham Osler and implemented first in the 1840s by the railroads, to keep their train schedules organized. But Britain had only one time zone and every town was on the same time. To quote http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm 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 zone
