2007-01-07 22:44:31 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
In the old days all the towns used their own local time. However when the railways came making it easy to move from town to town this became really inconvenient for making timetables. Eventually the time for the whole county was standardised to be GMT.
2007-01-07 22:48:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is about a 5 minute differance between London & Oxford (Sun rise & Set) due to the circumferance of the of the earth, Sunrise in Bristol is 10 minute differance.
When the railways first opened in the UK, it was decided that the whole of the Britain sould set their clocks to one time. The rest of the world then followed and greed the as Britain set their time up frist that other time zone would be set to Greenwich mean time.
2007-01-09 04:53:28 · answer #2 · answered by Joolz of Salopia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As said by others, every town used to have its own time-zone. This was changed when the railways were established due to the need for an understandable timetable.
However Christ Church college believed trains to be a fad and retained the original timezone, which is 5 minutes and 2 seconds behind GMT. So if you go to a service at the Christ Church chapel, don't expect it to start on the hour...
2007-01-07 23:37:19 · answer #3 · answered by The Truth 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Every train station and bus station operate in their own chaotic and incomprehensible time zones.
2007-01-07 22:48:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, its a load of rubbish.
2007-01-07 22:51:06 · answer #5 · answered by beanie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋