SANDFORD's FLEMING 190th BIRTHDAY

Sir SANDFORD FLEMING was born in January 7 1827. He was a British Canadian and  Inventor.    He was Born and Raised in Scotland. He Proposed World wide Standard Time Zones, designed Canadas First Postage Stamp's, he was a founding member of Royal Society of Canada and was a founder of the Royal Canadian Institute.

Sir Sandford Fleming
Portrait of Sir Sandford Fleming by John Wycliffe Lowes Forster
Born	January 7, 1827 Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died	July 22, 1915 (aged 88) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Occupation	engineer and inventor
Known for	Inventing, most notably standard time

INVENTOR OF WORLD WIDE STANDARD TIME:

                                                              After missing a train in 1876 in Ireland because its printed schedule listed p.m. instead of a.m., he proposed a single 24-hour clock for the entire world, located at the centre of the Earth, not linked to any surface meridian.At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, on February 8, 1879, he linked it to the anti-meridian of Greenwich (now 180°). He suggested that standard time zones could be used locally, but they were subordinate to his single world time, which he called Cosmic Time. He continued to promote his system at major international conferences including the International Meridian Conference of 1884. That conference accepted a different version of Universal Time but refused to accept his zones, stating that they were a local issue outside its purview. Nevertheless, by 1929, all major countries in the world had accepted time zones.