American and Canadian railroads enacted time zones — a concept that schedules all aspects of life today — on this day in history, Nov. 18, 1883. The rail industry's creation of time zones was a brazen ...

Charles F. Dowd tamed time. The career educator conceived a plan so audacious it’s hard to believe there was an era when his vision for the world didn’t exist. Dowd created time zones. He put the ...

Exactly 141 years ago at high noon, time changed forever in America. In Boston, time moved forward 16 minutes. In Baltimore 6. New Yorkers lost about 4 minutes. Those in Atlanta said goodbye to 22 ...

North Carolina has observed Eastern Standard Time for nearly 80 years. But that didn’t stop the curious from wondering whether the state is one of the few that is in more than one time zone. On ...