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Jump Back in Time 镀金时代  (1878-1889)
 
Taking the time, Brooklyn Navy Yard
纽约车站人员根据纽约布鲁克林 (Brooklyn) 的时间来调整车站的时间

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美国大陆正式引用四个标准时区:18831118

一开始车站管理员希望创建100个不同的火车时间表来解决这个问题。但是因为不同的火车路线有时候是根据不同的时间系统来运行,因此这么多个时区反而也成为让人困扰的问题。

最后,铁路管理员同意在美国大陆上使用四个时区的方式:东岸、中央、山区,以及太平洋时区。铁路运行也不再使用当地的时间。负责创建美国官方的各地时间的美国海军气象台,也同意采用这种方式,并在18831118日时,美国海军气象台正式使用新的时区。


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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