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Re-order Paragraphs
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Re-order Paragraphs
Arrange the sentences into the correct order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- Within a few decades, however, the convenience of standardized time proved so useful that entire countries adopted it as their official civil time.
- Passengers initially found this confusing, since station clocks no longer matched the sundials and church clocks they were used to consulting.
- Railway companies responded by adopting a single standard time for all their stations, regardless of each town's local solar time.
- As rail networks expanded and trains began traveling long distances at high speed, these small discrepancies made it nearly impossible to publish a timetable that stayed accurate across an entire route.
- Before the spread of railways, most towns kept their own local time based on the position of the sun, which meant noon in one town might differ by several minutes from noon in the next.