 | 1884 - 1126 pages
...the Conference adopted a resolution declaring the universal day to be the mean solar day, beginning, for all the world, at the moment of mean midnight...coinciding with the beginning of the civil day, and to be counted from zero up to 24 hours. The resolution further declares that the Conference expresses... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 996 pages
...represented, Greenwich was accepted as the most expedient zero, and a proposal for a universal day, to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, and the hours of which should be counted continuously from zero to twentyfour, was adopted.* The advantage... | |
 | 1884 - 420 pages
...votes in favour, 2 negatives, and 7 not voting, that this universal day be a mean solar day, beginning for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the civil day and date of that meridian, and be counted from 0 up to 24 hours. Put into popular language,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 662 pages
...adoption of a 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...coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and elate of that meridian, and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours. The great volcanic... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 688 pages
...Conference in regard to universal time, declaring the universal day to be the mean solar day to commence for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of...coinciding with the beginning of the civil day, and to be counted from oh. up to 24h., a proposition which, as already mentioned, had been debated at the... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 760 pages
...Conference in regard to universal time, declaring the universal day to be the mean solar day to commence for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of...coinciding with the beginning of the civil day, and to be counted from oh. up to 24)1., a proposition which, as already mentioned, had been debated at... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1885 - 572 pages
...Japan Venezuela Liberia Abstaining from voting- Germany San Domingo Ayes, 23 ; abstaining, 2. V. " That this universal day is to be a mean solar day ; is to begin for all the world at mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1833 - 572 pages
...Japan Venezuela Liberia Abstaining from voting-- Germany San Domingo Ayes, 23 ; abstaining, 2. V. " That this universal day is to be a mean solar day ; is to begin for all the world at mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that... | |
 | Canadian Institute - 1886 - 466 pages
...principles, if not with the precise features of the proposals set forth in the proceedings of the Canadian Institute, published in 1879. The resolution defining...Universal Day is to be a mean solar day ; is to begin tor all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning... | |
 | 1888 - 1052 pages
...England, as the standard meridian, and to resolve " that the universal day is to be a mean solar day, to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, and to be counted from zero to twenty-four hours." The French representation protested against the... | |
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That the conference proposes the adoption of a universal day for all purposes for which it may be found convenient and which shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard time where desirable. 
