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Jump Back in Time 鍍金時代  (1878-1889)
 
Taking the time, Brooklyn Navy Yard
紐約車站人員根據紐約布魯克林 (Brooklyn) 的時間來調整車站的時間

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美國大陸正式引用四個標準時區:18831118

一開始車站管理員希望建立100個不同的火車時間表來解決這個問題。但是因為不同的火車路線有時候是根據不同的時間系統來運行,因此這麼多個時區反而也成為讓人困擾的問題。

最後,鐵路管理員同意在美國大陸上使用四個時區的方式:東岸、中央、山區,以及太平洋時區。鐵路運行也不再使用當地的時間。負責建立美國官方的各地時間的美國海軍氣象台,也同意採用這種方式,並在18831118日時,美國海軍氣象台正式使用新的時區。


At first the railroad managers tried to address the problem by establishing 100 different railroad time zones. With so many time zones, different railroad lines were sometimes on different time systems, and scheduling remained confusing and uncertain.

Finally, the railway managers agreed to use four time zones for the continental United States: Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific. Local times would no longer be used by the railroads. The U.S. Naval Observatory, responsible for establishing the official time in the United States, agreed to make the change. At 12 noon on November 18, 1883, the U.S. Naval Observatory began signaling the change.

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