| From: | Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 25, 2004, 23:48 |
Philippe Caquant wrote:> > Before the railroad spread out in France, every place > had its own local time (not its local date, though...)Here, too. And, in the early days, each railroad established its own time zone system, which meant that, even in the same city, one railroad might say it's 12:00, and another might say it's 11:53 and yet another that it's 12:18, and so forth. :-)