At The Centre of Time
Capital of Nasty, an Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 09:35 (2791/6)
125 years ago this week, due to the rapid expansion of the railways and communications networks during the 1850s and 1860s, setting a standard global time soon became essential. 41 delegates from 25 nations gathered in Washington in the US for the 1884 International Meridian Conference and decided that Greenwich should be the point from where time and space should be measured.
Please enter your comment below. Hit Return twice (leaving a completely blank line) between paragraphs.
Use [b] for bold [/b] and [i] for italic [/i]. All other HTML commands will be stripped.
Your comment is (almost) immediately placed online as soon as you hit 'Post'.
Specifying an email address is optional. In the interests of your own privacy, CoN discourages you from doing so. Further, think twice about revealing any other personal information including telephone number, real name, exact address or blood type.
* A red asterisk denotes a required field.