The History of Time Zones

In a world where a click connects Mumbai to New York in an instant, we rarely consider the invisible threads that synchronize our global lives: time zones.

The Railway Revolution

Before the 19th century, every town set its clocks by the sun. This worked until the railway arrived. Suddenly, trains moving between cities with different local times caused massive confusion and dangerous collisions.

Sir Sandford Fleming's Vision

In 1884, Sir Sandford Fleming proposed a system of 24 time zones. This led to the establishment of the Greenwich Meridian in London as the zero-degree longitude line, known as GMT.

Today, we use UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) to keep our satellites and digital world in perfect harmony.