Sandford Fleming, a Scottish Canadian engineer, is known as the inventor of worldwide standard time. After missing a train in 1876 in Ireland because its printed schedule listed p.m. instead of a.m., he proposed a single 24-hour clock for the entire world, located at the centre of the Earth, not linked to any surface meridian. His time zones were universally accepted by 1929.
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