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within ten years, Sweden and North America already having done so, and the trend continued. The French maintained Paris time till 1911 and the following year convened a second conference to address the differences between different observatories which had become apparent, leading to the establishment
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That the Conference expresses the hope that the technical studies designed to regulate and extend the application of the decimal system to the division of angular space and of time shall be resumed, so as to permit the extension of this application to all cases in which it presents real advantages.
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That this universal day is to be a mean solar day; is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian; and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours. (Ayes, 14; noes, 3; abstaining,
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That the initial meridian should have a character of absolute neutrality. It should be chosen exclusively so as to secure to science and to international commerce all possible advantages, and especially should cut no great continent—neither Europe nor America. (Ayes, 3; noes,
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The main issue at the conference, apart from procedural issues such as the provision of an authorized French translation of the proceedings, was France's insistence that the meridian should have a strictly neutral character in the same way that they maintained that the
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That the Conference proposes to the Governments here represented the adoption of the meridian passing through the centre of the transit instrument at the Observatory of Greenwich as the initial meridian for longitude. (Ayes, 22; noes, 1; abstaining,
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On 11 October 1883, a convention of railroad executives met in Chicago and agreed to the implementation of five time zones in North America, using as a basis Greenwich Mean Time. Before the invitations to the Washington conference were sent out on
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That the Conference proposes the adoption of a universal day for all purposes for which it may be found convenient, and which shall not interfere with the use of local or standard time where desirable. (Ayes, 23; abstaining,
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be adopted at all stations as soon as the General Post Office permitted it". The Post Office was by this time transmitting time signals from Greenwich by telegraph to most parts of the country to set the clocks. By
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That it is the opinion of this Congress that it is desirable to adopt a single prime meridian for all nations, in place of the multiplicity of initial meridians which now exist. (This resolution was unanimously
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On the question of universal time, Fleming's opinion to one of the lead-up committees was borne out: "In my judgment, the nearest approach to it which may be attempted with any chance of success, is to have
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of Greenwich was not supported by the British delegation. In the end, the pragmatic argument for continuity with most nautical charts won the day and the French delegation abstained in the vote.
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who had both established wire services supporting local time in various cities. The Naval Observatory had also foiled the onward transmission of the Greenwich time signal from
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That from this meridian longitude shall be counted in two directions up to 180 degrees, east longitude being plus and west longitude minus. (Ayes, 14; noes, 5; abstaining, 6.)
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Local times in major towns across the United States, as published in 1857 when, as the document states, 'There is no "Standard Railroad Time" in the United States or Canada'
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Regarding resolution 6: Great Britain had already shifted the beginning of the nautical day from noon, twelve hours before midnight, to midnight in 1805, during the
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showed the unified times and met with general approval, although legal disputes meant that it was not until 1880 that GMT was formally established across the UK.
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was a neutral measure. This requirement conflicted with the need to base measurements on an established observatory on land and Fleming's proposal of using the
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By the 1870s there was pressure both to establish a prime meridian for worldwide navigation purposes and to unify local times for railway timetables. The first
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That the Conference expresses the hope that as soon as may be practicable the astronomical and nautical days will be arranged everywhere to begin at midnight.
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1883 then thrashed out most of the technical details, leaving the diplomatic agreements to a later conference. The United States passed an Act of Congress on
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preceded the Washington conference, although setting local times was not part of the remit of the conference and it was not legally established until 1918.
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authorizing the President to call an international conference to fix on a common prime meridian for time and longitude throughout the world.
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in 1881, in which the establishment of a universal prime meridian and a uniform standard of time was high on the agenda. The Seventh
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with an extra dial having a local time rounded to the nearest hour. He also pointed out that many of the corrections for
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On 22 October 1884, the following resolutions were adopted by the conference (voting took place on 13 October):
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minutes of arc/angular measure), but no motion was tabled, as there was little experience to guide the choice.
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The International Meridian Conference had its origins in the Third International Geographical Congress held in
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Twenty-one countries voted against the proposal, while three (France, Brazil, San Domingo) voted in favor.
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December, the joint efforts of Abbe, Fleming and William Frederick Allen, Secretary of the US railways'
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Resolution 4 expressly exempts standard time from the universal day. Although two delegates, including
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seconds". France finally replaced this phrase with "Coordinated Universal Time" (UTC) in 1978.
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These proposals did not meet universal approval in the scientific community, being opposed by
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In the United States, the problems were much more severe, with one table showing over 100
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The first proposal for a consistent treatment of time worldwide was a memoir entitled "
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Resolution 2, fixing the meridian at Greenwich, was passed 22–1 (San Domingo, now the
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Twenty-six countries, represented by 41 delegates, participated in the conference:
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Sadler, D. H. (1978), "Mean Solar Time on the Meridian of Greenwich",
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for international use. The conference was held at the request of
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On 13 October 1884, the following resolution was not adopted:
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advocating three time zones across the country based on the
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Greenwich meridian
United States
Washington, D.C.
C. R. P. Rodgers
Universal Time
Greenwich meridian
Washington, D.C.
United States
prime meridian
U.S. President
Chester A. Arthur
Greenwich Meridian
longitude
International Geographical Congress
Greenwich Meridian
charts

Great Western Railway
GMT
Bradshaw's railway guide
local
Charles F. Dowd
Washington meridian
Sandford Fleming
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Institute
universal time
local mean time
solar time

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