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Before the railways, Britain kept its time locally. Noon in Bristol arrived some ten minutes after noon in London, and nobody found this inconvenient, because a journey of any distance took days. The railways changed that. Timetables listing departures by the minute were useless if every station kept a different clock, and passengers who set their watches by the town hall regularly missed trains. In 1840 the Great Western Railway began running on London time throughout its network, and other companies followed over the next few years. Not everyone welcomed the change. Some towns kept a second minute hand on their public clocks to show local time, and a few places resisted for years on principle. Standard time was not made legal until 1880, by which point it had long been the practice in all but name. The episode is often cited as an example of how technology can compel social agreement faster than any law: nobody voted for railway time, yet within a generation it governed the working day.
Why did differences in local time not matter before the railways?
Дұрыс жауабы мен түсіндірмесі
Жауабы: Travel was so slow that small gaps went unnoticed.
Мәтін: сапар бірнеше күнге созылғандықтан, уақыт айырмасы кедергі болмаған.
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