| Real name: | Sir Sandford Fleming | | Born: | 07 January 1827 Comment | | When did Sandford Fleming die? / Died | 22 July 1915 | | How many years did Sandford Fleming live? / Lived | 88 years | | Where was Sandford Fleming born? | Kirkcaldy, United Kingdom | | Where did Sandford Fleming die? / Deathplace | Halifax, Canada | | Zodiac sign: | Capricorn |
Sandford Fleming Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is Sandford Fleming worth? | Under review
| | Nationality: | British-Canadian |
Who was Sandford Fleming? / Facts
- he was Born and raised in Scotland, but he emigrated to Canada at the age of 18
- He proposed worldwide standard time zones and designed Canada's first postage stamp
- He engineered much of the Intercolonial Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway
- Was a founding member of the Royal Society of Canada and founder of the Royal Canadian Institute, a science organization in Toronto
- After he missed 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 promoted his system at international conferences, including the International Meridian Conference of 1884. That conference accepted a different version of Universal Time but refused to accept his zones. But, by 1929, all major countries in the world had accepted time zones
- His idea was celebrated by Google on January 7, 2017, his 190 birthday
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Last update: 07 January 2017
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