What is Standard time?
'''Standard time''' is putting all [[clock]]s in a [[time zone]] to the same time. '''Standard time''' can also be used to mean the time without [[daylight saving time]]. Standard time happens from [[autumn]] to early [[Spring (season)|spring]]. Daylight saving time happens from early spring to autumn. ==History== ===Great Britain=== Standard time was first used by British [[railway]]s on [[December 11]], [[1847]], when they switched from [[local mean time]] to [[Greenwich Mean Time]] (GMT). Almost all of [[Great Britain]]'s public clocks were using GMT by 1855. ===North America=== Before 1883, local mean time was used in all of North America. This meant there were many different local times. This caused problems for train schedules. Sandford Fleming, a [[Canada|Canadian]], proposed standard time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute on February 8, 1879. The owners of the major railroads met in [[Chicago]] to make the Standard Time System. Most states began using the system soon after the railroads. The U.S. government officially began using the system almost fifty years later. ==Criticism== Some people do not like standard time (and daylight saving time). Some people do not like it because they do not trust in government. Others believe that it disturbs [[circadian rhythm]]s. Others simply like traditional, natural markers of time, like sunsets, noon and sunrise.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/d.html|title= Standard time began with the railroads|quote= For millennia, people have measured time based on the position of the sun.|access-date= 2007-04-06|archive-date= 2005-09-15|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20050915001624/http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/d.html|url-status= dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==More reading== *{{cite journal |author=Ian R. Bartky |title= The adoption of standard time |journal= Technology and Culture |volume=30 |issue=1 |date= Jan 1989 |pages=25–56 |doi= 10.2307/3105430 |jstor= 3105430|s2cid= 111724161 |url= https://zenodo.o