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Time Zones

Archive Atlanta by Victoria Lemos

Jan 30, 20268:53History

Atlanta gets nearly an extra hour of evening sunlight compared to cities east of us—and it turns out that’s no accident. In this episode, we unravel how railroads invented time zones, why Georgia was once split between C...

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Time Zones is an episode from Archive Atlanta by Victoria Lemos. Atlanta gets nearly an extra hour of evening sunlight compared to cities east of us—and it turns out that’s no accident. In this episode, we unravel how railroads invented tim...

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Published Jan 30, 2026, 8:53 long, audio available.

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