AM&O 1874 Listing in Official Guide

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Thanks Gordon

A lot of folks do not know that prior to the Standard Time Act of 1883, railroads and communities set what was their time for a location or town. It was not consistent, as your tabulation shows.

I believe it was primarily the railroads that pushed for standard time to be official.

Ken Miller

On Jun 18, 2014, at 12:34 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> Aubrey,
>  
> Your memory is just fine, but I can tweak it a bit from a section headed, "Comparative Time-Table" in a reprint of the 1868 Guide.
>  
> When it is noon at Washington, it would be:
>  
> 12:03pm in Norfolk
> 11:50am in Petersburg
> 11:51am in Lynchburg
> Bristol is not listed--and most egregious of all, Big Lick is not listed either (of course, there was no connection at Big Lick in 1868)
> 11:33am in Knoxville
> Gordon Hamilton
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> The time reference page I am speaking of has a list of major railroad cities and their individual differences from Washington time. For example, when it was noon in Washington, it was 12:01 in Norfolk, 11:58 in Lynchburg, 11: 30 in Bristol and so on.  These are not the actual times listed because I am going from memory of when I saw it years ago.
>  
> Aubrey  Wiley
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