 Time zones were now legally part of American life. Here again is Michael O'Malley. What standard time did is it changed the nature of community. Before standard time, the time of day was what the local sun was doing, and it was noon in your valley. On the other side of the mountain, it was not quite noon yet. But standard time, if everybody adopted it, put people in new forms of relationship to each other. So after 1883, from Portland, Maine to Atlanta, everybody's