Read the excerpt below. in england a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which, in plain terms, is to empoverish the nation. —thomas paine, common sense, 1776 based on the excerpt, what does paine suggest about the king’s actions?

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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