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"What Time Is It?" Essay from The Goldfinch, November 1983

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Courtesy of State Historical Society of Iowa"What Time Is It?" The Goldfinch, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 10, November 1983

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This essay from The Goldfinch explains how on November 18, 1883, at 12 p.m. (noon), the United States railroads adopted a system for standard time zones.

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  • Why was there a need to have a system for standard time zones?
  • What evidence from the text supports standard time zones being a positive or a negative for during the industrial revolution?