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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andr=E9 E. Bouchard)
Subject: Re:Internal Time Zones
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Tony wrote the foolowing:
"
Fellow Shadow Watchers,
Can anyone tell me when (or if) the system of=20
International Time Zones was formally established/recognized and by what=20
authority? Did it just evolve from each country's individual needs and=20
interpretations or was there an international conference at some stage?
I have the British Admiralty World Time Zone Chart (5001) revised 1992=20
but the notes thereon give no indication of its origins.
The information is requested for the notes to accompany a public dial and=
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if anyone has this to hand it would save some urgent trawling through=20
reference material.
Thanks in anticipation,
Tony Moss
"
according to a Monthly Bulletin of the Royal Bank of Canada
(Vol 59, #8, August 1978),
the "inventor" of the International Time Zones
is a Canadian, Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915), a great engineer and human=
ist.
Andre E. Bouchard
Quebec Sundial Society.
Andre E. Bouchard, Ph.D.
secretaire general
Commission des Cadrans solaires du Quebec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] < Andre E. Bouchard >
http://cadrans_solaires.scg.ulaval.ca
