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It's time to mentally prepare yourselves for this (lemmy.world)
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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

That was kinda the situation in the past: Every town would have its own time, synced to the local noon every once in a while as the precision of the church or townhall clock demanded. That stuck around until railroad operators and passengers got sick and tired of dealing with the timetables that produces.