Talk:Charles F. Dowd

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This page is somewhat contradictory. It credits Dowd with the basic concept of time zones based on one hour bands of longitude, then it says the proposal adopted by the railroads in 1883 somehow didn't rely on Dowd's concept, because it fiddled with drawing the longitude bands a bit. That's not consistent and doesn't seem fair to Dowd. Did he or did he not invent the US Standard Time zone concept, adopted by the railroads and then univerally in some form. This article needs to do a better job of answering that basic question. What, if anything did the railroads change or improve with their implementation of the concept in 1883? BTW, I live near Saratoga Springs and there's a nice sundial memorial to Dowd behind the main street bank, the Adirondack Trust Co. on Broadway Jack Lebowitz Jackl2400 17:58, 24 February 2007 (UTC)