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In June 1886, the Canadian Pacific Railway Company established new requirements for dials, specifying that the figures 13 to 24 must accompany the conventional hour indicators, aligning with the newly-adopted 24-hour standard time system. Small paper dials featuring the “new afternoon hours” were issued to...