time zone 的詞源
time zone(n.)
1885年,源自 time(n.)和 zone(n.)。與英國和法國一樣,全國統一時間的運動來自鐵路。
Previous to 1883 the methods of measuring time in the United States were so varied and so numerous as to be ludicrous. There were 50 different standards used in the United States, and on one road between New York and Boston, whose actual difference is 12 minutes, there were three distinct standards of time. Even small towns had two different standards one known as "town" or local time and the other "railroad" time.
... At noon on November 18, 1883, there was a general resetting of watches and clocks all over the United States and Canada, and the four great time zones, one hour apart, into which the country was divided came into being. So smoothly did the plan work that the general readjustment was accomplished without great difficulty and it has worked satisfactorily ever since. [Railroad Trainman, September 1909]
在1883年之前,美國測量時間的方法如此多樣化和繁瑣,以至於令人發笑。在美國有50種不同的標準,而在紐約和波士頓之間的一條路上,實際差異爲12分鐘,卻有三種不同的時間標準。即使是小城鎮也有兩種不同的標準,一種被稱爲“城鎮”或當地時間,另一種是“鐵路”時間。
... 在1883年11月18日中午,美國和加拿大各地的手錶和時鐘都進行了普遍的重新設置,國家被劃分爲四個相隔一小時的時區。計劃執行得非常順利,普遍調整沒有遇到太大的困難,自那以後一直運作良好。[鐵路工人,1909年9月]
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