A Brief History of Time Zones is an interesting BBC article on the thorny subject of global time differences. The item has a very engaging (flash) graphic that helps to delineate the topic very effectively. In our age of globally linked communications it seems a little odd now that cultural, political and other forces have contributed to the most complex disparities in global time references since the 19th century. The clamour for daylight saving time and other associated ideas which attempt to completely change our temporal frames of reference have a large part to do with this complexity. See more here:-
A brief history of Time Zones
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