1884: The Meeting That Set the World's Clock | Sleep Documentary

🌙 Want more Quiet History at Bedtime?    • Плейлист   Before the world agreed on Greenwich Mean Time, every town kept its own clock. In 1884, delegates from 25 nations gathered in Washington, D.C., to settle one of the most important questions of the modern age: Which meridian should become the world's standard? Tonight's story follows the remarkable journey from Britain's railway revolution and the rise of Greenwich time to the International Meridian Conference that changed how the entire world measures time. You'll discover how local solar time created confusion across expanding railway networks, why American railroads created standardized time zones before governments did, and how a single observatory in Greenwich eventually became the reference point for the modern world. So dim the lights, relax, and travel back to the Victorian era as we explore the extraordinary story behind the clock the world agreed on. #QuietHistoryAtBedtime #GreenwichMeanTime #VictorianHistory #HistoryDocumentary