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Show Standard Time Zones Officials of the large railroads in the United States met in 1883 to discover some method of establishing estab-lishing a time-system that could be universally adopted by all American railroads. Previously, all roads had used different systems. sys-tems. The railroad men adopted a system sys-tem based on the idea that 24 standard meridians should be established es-tablished 15 degrees apart in longitude, lon-gitude, starting from the meridian of Greenwich, England, and extending ex-tending around the globe. An international in-ternational conference on standard stand-ard time, meeting in Washington in 1884, made the same recommendation recom-mendation to the countries represented. repre-sented. Since that time, the four time zones, Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific, have been used in this country. |