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    The document discusses the history of timekeeping and the development of time zones. It explains that ancient societies used the sun to tell time, but each town had its own clock time. In the 1850s, England standardized to a single time to make travel easier. Later, in the late 1800s, the world adopted standardized time zones for the same reason. Today, most countries use a single time zone while very large countries like the US, Russia, and China use multiple zones to account for the changing times of day across their wide expanses.

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    DynEd RFS Classroom Activities

    Unit 3: Reading Texts

    Reading 1 possible to set all the clocks in the world to the


    In ancient times, people used the sun to tell the same time.
    time. They knew it was the middle of the day
    when the sun was directly overhead. Reading 3
    Modern clocks were invented in Europe. After In the late 1800s, people around the world
    people invented clocks, most towns showed the created time zones to make travel and
    time on a clock tower. Each town had a different communication easier. Today, the world is
    time. This is because the sun rises and sets at divided into 24 time zones. In most places, the
    different times in different places. When people time changes by one hour as you move from one
    went from one town to another, they changed time zone to the next. For example, when it is
    the time on their watches. When people began 9:00 AM in England, it is 10:00 AM in France,
    traveling by train, these different times became which is one time zone away.
    a big problem. People could not plan their trips People who live in one time zone all set their
    because each city had its own time. clocks to the same time. World time zones make
    it easier for people around the world to know
    Reading 2 the time in other places.
    In the 1850s, all the towns in England began to
    set their clocks to the same time. This made life Reading 4
    easier for English people. When people went Most countries use one time zone for the entire
    from one town to another, the time did not country. Even some large countries, such as
    change. It was the same time everywhere they China, use a single time zone. China is large
    went in England. enough to cover five time zones. However, in
    Do you think everywhere in the world should use 1949, China decided to use a single time zone for
    the same time? Actually, every place cannot use the entire country. The United States, in
    the same time. When it is daytime in one part of contrast, has four time zones. There is a 3-hour
    the world, it is night in another part. When the difference between the time in New York City
    sun is setting at night in Indonesia, the sun is and the time in Los Angeles. Because it is so
    rising to begin a new day in Mexico. It is not large, Russia has nine time zones.

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