Topic: World famous - Part Two

Greenwich Mean Time was adopted across the island of Great Britain by the Railway Clearing House in 1847, and by almost all railway companies by the following year - HA, again my beloved railways, which set the pace... In 1880, GMT was legally adopted throughout the island of Great Britain. Switzerland followed introduced GMT (+1) in 1894... Not so sure, if this would still be the case today...
And it's not only time, that starts and ends here. What would we climbers, mountaineers, hickers, GPS users, travelers, politicians and diplomats do without the good old East-West stuff. The good old USA, which at that time were still somehow diplomatic and really cared about the world ticking the same, called the "International Meridian Conference" in 1884, where it was decided "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." Abstaining from voting was (surprise, surprise...) FRANCE! Their maps still showed for a long time the zero meridian going through Paris... Well, Santo Domingo said "No" - not that this would be important... Et voila: www.from0to180degreesandback.com
Oh and back to time. Did you know that UT1 is the principal form of Universal Time. UT1 is the same everywhere on Earth, and is proportional to the true rotation angle of the Earth with respect to a fixed frame of reference. The ratio of UT1 to mean sidereal time is defined to be 0.997269566329084 − 5.8684×10−11T + 5.9×10−15T², where T is the number of Julian centuries of 36525 days each that have elapsed since JD 2451545.0 (J2000). I didn't. And to be honest, i really don't care anyway...

and this is me, on 52° 28'40'' N and 0° 0'0'' W?/E?


It's now 22.51 (GMT) and time for the usual lyrics:

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Pink Floyd - Time


Greenwich Park on a grey London Autumn Day