Equivalent_Tear_456 t1_jd32o3g wrote on March 21, 2023 at 2:17 PM

Reply to comment by AudibleNod in TIL That from 1909-1937 the Netherlands had the time zone UTC+ 19 minutes 32.13 seconds by Commercial_Jelly_893

So basically, before time zones everyone was just living in their own personal time warp.

AudibleNod t1_jd33puq wrote on March 21, 2023 at 2:24 PM

Yes.

Sometimes towns were that were due north-south of one another, they'd have wildly different times. Shipping ports realized the importance of accurate time sooner than inland towns since sailors needed accurate time for ocean navigation. Hence why the US Naval Observatory keeps time for the US.