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Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (born 1827)
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Sandford Fleming
Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor (1827–1915)
Sir Sandford Fleming was a Scottish Canadian engineer and inventor. Born and raised in Scotland, he immigrated to colonial Canada at the age of 18. He promoted worldwide standard time zones, a prime meridian, and use of the 24-hour clock as key elements to communicating the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Standard time
Synchronization of clocks within a geographical region
Standard time is the synchronization of clocks within a geographical region to a single time standard, rather than a local mean time standard. The term is also used to contrast with daylight saving time, a period of the year when clocks are shifted ahead one hour, supposedly to…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)