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Historical illustration of a gold nineteenth-century pocket watch with contrasting gold and blue minute hands on a railway timetable; a steam railway station and telegraph wires appear behind it, evoking the coexistence of local and Greenwich time.

Why Did Britain Once Have Different Local Times?

Railways made a shared Greenwich time useful; telegraph signals made it practical. A two-handed watch preserves the transition from local noon.

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