In the 1980s, Alaska cut its number of time zones from four to two. Now there’s Alaska Standard Time and Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time, which means that Adak operates an hour behind the rest of ...

On Nov. 18, 1883, Americans adopted four standardized time zones, ... Exactly 141 years ago at high noon, time changed forever in America. In Boston, time moved forward 16 minutes.

Then, in one week, almost everyone in America was on the same clock. Until 1883, the country was a chaos of local times. Then, in ... In the U.S. in the 1870s there were hundreds of time zones, ...

I wasn’t sure if we were on the same time or not. I knew I had gone from the Pacific to the Mountain time zone, but I wasn’t sure where Ron Colone: A brief history of time zones in America ...