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by outtatime 2120 days ago
We used to have that, and it was dreadful. Every municipality had its own local time. Railroads made that untenable, and led to the creation of timezones.
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Is it possible that such a system would be more tenable now with cheaper and more ubiquitous devices that can measure or calculate local solar time?
Well, railroads still exist.