因为大家都不能统一时间，所有计划全都被搞砸了。

The plans were all messed up when nobody could agree on a time.

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1966年，美国国会通过了《统一时间法案》(Uniform Time Act)，夏令时被国家采用，但是州可以决定是否遵循。

In 1966, the U.S. Congress passed the Uniform Time act, making daylight saving a national practice, but one that states could decide whether or not to observe.

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也许正是由于人们总在思考怎样用一个统一时间把不同地方的时间同步化的问题，才激发了爱因斯坦的灵感，产生了相对论，彻底统一了时空问题。

Thinking about how railway time required clocks in different places to be synchronized may have inspired Einstein to develop his theory of relativity, which unifies space and time.

youdao

So what I'm saying now is it took a long time for this to solidify. And one of the things we think made it solidify was the development of codices,a codex.

所以这花了很长一段时间,才得以统一，我们觉得,使它统一的是抄本的出现。

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