What do you think life in Latin America would be like today if the Europeans had never conquered these places ?

an era of negotiation.

is that an answer to your question?

payments were made after the 1940s.

in the 1980s, a commission held investigations and made recommendations.

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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