I don't have reference at hand but a long time ago there was a lot of national meridian references, but I think they disappeared by WWI or WWII in favor of the "International Meridian" in Greenwich. I agree that there was a Paris meridian (it is still engraved on a building of Paris Observatory, as well as San Fernando (Andalucia, Spain) was the reference meridian for Spain, etc. As far as I know, Poland legal time is defined by UTC(PL), for USA, I'm not sure if it's UTC(USNO) or UTC(NIST), I believe that Germany is UTC(PTB); I'm surprised that the _legal_ definition for UK is GMT, since there was an argument from British people that they cannot agree to suppress leapseconds in UTC without going to Parliament to change the definition for UK legal time. Any more insights ? Have a nice day, Jean-Louis Oneto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich and Marcia Putz" <rp...@bnin.net> To: <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:35 AM Subject: [time-nuts] French Time offset
> Thanks John, yes I'm real. > The 1978 date is correct, I'm looking for the article to quote. Prior to > the decree, France maintained a roughly twelve and a half minute offset. I > always was struck by this as the BIPM is located in France, and has been > for many years. Disagreement on the location of the prime meridian > perhaps? > Wow, I didn't expect that much response for a trivia question. > Regards to all; > Rich > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.