...resolution. The third and fourth resolutions were in regard to the universal day, defining it as beginning at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian,...beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian ; the hours to be counted successively from o to 24. In the sixth resolution, " The Conference expresses...

...then proposed that the universal day be a mean solar day, to begin for all the world at the moment of midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with...beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian, and to be counted from zero up to twentyfour hours. To give time for informally considering this, and for...

...and which shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard time, where desirable." 6. " That this universal day is to be a mean solar day;...is to be counted from zero up to twentyfour hours." 6. " That the conference expresses the hope, that, as soon as may be practicable, the astronomical...

...or other standard times where desirable." The fifth resolution recommends " That the universal duy is to be a mean solar day, is to begin for all the...is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours " ; the sixth, " That the Conference expresses the hope that as soon as may be practicable the astronomical...

...adoption of an universal day has also been recommended by the Conference. It is to be a mean solar day to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight...is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours. The great volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, in the Straits of Snnda, which took place in August of last...

...adoption of an universal day has also been recommended by the Conference. It is to be a mean solar day to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight...that meridian, and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-lour hours. General Strachey and Mr. Scott, that at some barometrical stations the atmospheric...

...adopt a universal day for certain purposes other than local, this universal day to be a mean solar day, to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight...beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian, and to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours. 5. Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences at...

...then proposed that the universal day be a mean solar day, to begin for all the world at the moment of midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with...beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian, and to be counted from zero up to twentyfour hours. To give time for informally considering this, and for...

...then proposed that the universal day be a mean solar day, to begin for all the world at the moment of midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with...beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian, and to be counted from zero up to twentyfour hours. To give time for informally considering tMf, and for...

...Liberia, Abstaining from voting — Germany, San Domingo. Ayes, 23 ; abstaining, 2. V. " Resolved, That this universal day is to be a mean solar day...to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours.'" This resolution was adopted by the following vote : — In the affirmative — Brazil, Liberia, Chili,...