 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.  Science - Page 3991884Full view - About this book
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1884 - 652 pages
...of the Greenwich meridian, will always be correctly given by the simple formula, LT — UT + Я, X being the longitude expressed as above. After a short...universal day for all purposes for which it may be foUTid convenient, and which shall not interfere with the use of local time where desirable. The delegate... | |
 | 1884 - 666 pages
...universal time of the Greenwich meridian, will always be correctly given by the simple formula, LT = UT 4- A, A being the longitude expressed as above. After...substitute the resolution of the geodetic conference at Koine, which proposed a universal day of twenty-four hours, beginning at Greenwich, mean noon; ie,... | |
 | 1884 - 646 pages
...to 180°, east longitude being plus, and ^est, longitude minus." 4. " That the conference proposes the adoption of a universal day for all purposes 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... | |
 | 1884 - 420 pages
...longitude. Subsequently it was resolved, without a dissentient vote, " that a universal day be adopted for all purposes, for which it may be found convenient, and which shall not interfere with local or other standard time where desirable. Finally it was resolved, by 15 votes in favour, 2 negatives,... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1885 - 572 pages
...Brazil San Domingo Franco Turkey Ayes, 14 ; noes, 5 ; abstaining 6. IV. " That the Conference proposes the adoption of a universal day for all purposes for...and which shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard time where desirable." This resolution was adopted by the following vote : — In... | |
 | 1885 - 600 pages
...Brazil San Domingo France Turkey Ayes, 14 ; noes, 5 ; abstaining 6. IV. " That the Conference proposes the adoption of a universal day for all purposes for...and which shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard time where desirable." This resolution was adopted by the following vote:— In the... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 686 pages
...Dorningo, France, Turkey. Ayes, 14 ; noes, 5 ; abstaining, 6. IV. "Resolved, That the Conference proposes the adoption of a universal day for all purposes for...and which shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard time where desirable." This resolution was adopted by the following vote : — In... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1833 - 572 pages
...Brazil San Domingo France Turkey Ayes, 14 ; noes, 5 ; abstaining 6. IV. " That the Conference proposes the adoption of a universal day for all purposes for...and which shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard time where desirable." This resolution was adopted by the following vote : — In... | |
 | 1885 - 468 pages
...begin and end at the same moment all over the world as it does at Greenwich, was adopted "for all the purposes for which it may be found convenient, and which shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard time where desirable." It would have made the day at Toronto begin at seventeen and... | |
 | 1885 - 900 pages
...a single direction to 860°. A fourth resolution proposed " the adoption of a universal day for the purposes for which it may be found convenient, and which shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard times where desirable." The fifth resolution recommends " That the universal day... | |
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