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This map was obtained from an edition of the National Atlas of the United States.Like almost all works of the U.S. federal government, works from the National Atlas are in the public domain in the United States.
The Atlantic Time Zone is a geographical region that keeps standard time—called Atlantic Standard Time (AST)—by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time , resulting in UTC−04:00. AST is observed in parts of North America including several Caribbean islands.
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Operators of the new railroad lines needed a new time plan that would offer a uniform train schedule for departures and arrivals. Four standard time zones for the continental United States were introduced at noon on November 18, 1883, in Chicago, IL, when the telegraph lines transmitted time signals to all major cities. [4] [5]
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