New proposal suggests merging Pacific and Mountain time zones. March 8, 2009— -- While most Americans are moaning over the loss of an hour's sleep due to the start of Daylight Saving Time ...

That Sunday in 1883, communities across the country ‒ and the railroads operating in them ‒ agreed to standardize time and create four time zones across North America. It was known as "the day ...

A proposal by a couple of professors at Johns Hopkins University to eliminate the world's time zones has been getting some ... who proposed in 1870 a system of five zones across North America, ...

Charles F. Dowd conceived the idea of time zones in 1869 as the transcontinental railroad united the Atlantic and Pacific coasts; bringing order to the concept of time around the world.

Then, in one week, almost everyone in America was on the ... A Tribune map from 1883 shows how railroads divided the country into four time zones ... Synchronizing relative time across cities ...

This site has a lot of great tools for doing time zone calculations, but the one that saved us this week was their meeting planner.The way it works is that you pick the date for your meeting and a ...

In North America, local towns and cities, eager for the prosperity and opportunities brought by the railroad, were quick to adopt their continent's new time zones.