Read the following passage carefully.
The standardization of time in nineteenth-century Britain was not merely a technological inevitability driven by the expansion of the railway network, but a deeply contested legal and social transformation. Prior to the 1850s, local communities operated on "solar time," determined by the sun's zenith at their specific longitude. Courts explicitly recognized solar time as the only legally binding temporal standard for contracts and labor agreements. However, as railway companies mandated a uniform "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT) to prevent catastrophic collisions and synchronize schedules, industrial employers quickly adopted GMT to regulate factory shifts. This dual system created profound friction. Factory workers, who were penalized for arriving late according to the factory clock (often set to GMT), frequently appealed to local magistrates, arguing their punctuality based on the local solar time. Surprisingly, until the Statutes (Definition of Time) Act of 1880 formally established GMT as the legal standard across Great Britain, magistrates overwhelmingly ruled in favor of the workers. These legal decisions underscored a judicial reluctance to subordinate customary local practices to the administrative convenience of corporate entities, effectively meaning that for three decades, factory owners lacked the legal authority to enforce GMT-based punctuality if it conflicted with the local solar time.
Evaluate the following statement based on the specific details in the passage:
If a British town's local solar time was ten minutes behind Greenwich Mean Time in 1870, a factory worker in that town who arrived for an 8:00 AM shift at 8:05 AM according to the factory's GMT clock could legally avoid a penalty for tardiness by appealing to a local magistrate.
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