How the world moved from relative time to a standardized global clock
In short: Before the modern era, time differences between locations were merely relative. This video explores the forgotten story of how humanity developed a set of rules to create uniform standard time across the globe.
For most of history, time was not exact or standardized between places. The video traces the transition from these relative local times to the organized system of time zones we rely on today.
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