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BEFORE 1883, EVERY TOWN HAD ITS OWN TIME. THIS MAN FIXED THE CHAOS. In the summer of 1876, Sir Sandford Fleming missed a train in Ireland because of a simple typo - the schedule said "p.m." instead of "a.m." While most people would have just been annoyed, Fleming, a brilliant railway engineer, realized the world had a massive problem. In a time when every town set its own clock by the sun, North America alone had over 100 different "local times." This chaos caused missed connections, telegram co