Imagine the world as one big clock, everyone follows the same time. But when people started traveling far and wide, it became confusing. A man named Sir Sandford Fleming had a brilliant idea: divide the world into slices called time zones, so each place has its own time. It made life easier for travelers and even helped make train schedules work better.
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- You leave your house at 8 a. m., and when you arrive in another city, it's still 7 a. m. without any changes.
- A train leaves New York at noon, but by the time it arrives in Chicago, it’s only 11 a. m. because of local time differences.
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- How Do We Know What People Thought Long Ago?
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