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TIME
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Time
Local time was based on solar time.Greenwich mean time or Greenwich meridian time(GMT), the former name for mean solar time at the original site of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England, which is located on the prime meridian.
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Time Zone History
Time zone was conceived during the advent of railways and telecommunications.
Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian railway engineer, developed the system of worldwide time zones
Divided into 24 time zones, each spaced 15º of longitude apart
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Time Zone History
An International Prime Meridian Conference was held in Washington, DC, in 1884 to standardize time around the world and select the Prime Meridian or the meridian that is designated 0º from which all other longitudes are measured .
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Local Time
A time zone is a region of the earth that has uniform standard time, usually referred to as the local time.
UTC - Zulu time (time standard) = GMT
Local time = UTC + time zone or
Local time = UTC - time zone
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Traffic Conference Areas
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Traffic Conference Areas