By <a href="http://www.vox.com/authors/matthew-yglesias">Matthew Yglesias</a> | <a href="http://twitter.com/mattyglesias">@mattyglesias</a> -<br><br>Time zones are a relatively recent invention. They date back to the 19th Century and were designed to reconcile the needs of the then-new railroad industry with the ingrained habits of a population new to clocks.<br><br><a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/8/5/5970767/case-against-time-zones">READ MORE ON VOX</a>
Will a universal time zone replace our current archaic system?
