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Time Zones

The Earth is divided into 24 time zones so that everyone in the world can be on roughly similar schedules.

The idea to divide the Earth into time zones was proposed by the Canadian railway planner and engineer Sir Sandford Fleming in the late 1870s.
See also: Earth, Time.

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