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How Standardized Time Zones Unified Global Commerce
Before the late nineteenth century, every town kept its own solar time, creating chaos for railroads and international trade. This episode explores how Sir Sandford Fleming’s push for global standardization solved a logistical nightmare, reducing scheduling errors by ninety percent and laying the groundwork for modern economic integration. We examine the political resistance to Greenwich Mean Time, the technical hurdles of telegraph synchronization, and why unified time became the invisible infrastructure of the twenty-first century economy.
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