Quote Originally Posted by Steve Ashton View Post
Sir Sandord Fleming was also the most influential proponant (The plaque in his birthplace of Kirkcady, Scotland says Inventor) of what we today call World-Wide Standard Time Zones. All because he missed a train because at the time every city set their own local time.
Yes and what a hard way was had getting the world to accept it. I wish it was Paris Mean Time, but I'm biased. I've a friend who's written a play about it actually. Ironic that Greenwich is in England, a country that can't run a train on time so I'm told. Fleming is probably turning.