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ON the first day of the month, the Presidern of the United States, in his message at the opening of Congress, referred to the International Meridian Conference lately convened in Washington, in the following words:—“The Conference concluded its labours on November 1, having with substantial unanimity agreed upon the meridian of Greenwich as the starting point whence longitude is to be computed through 180° eastward and westward, and upon the adoption for all purposes for which it may be found convenient of a Universal Day, which shall begin at midnight on the initial meredian, and whose hours shall be counted from zero up to twenty-four.”
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Prime Meridian Time 1 . Nature 33, 259–262 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033259a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/033259a0