...average solar day. However, the universal day was 'to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian.'8 With the adoption of Greenwich as the point from which all time zones would henceforth...

...resolution was adopted by twenty-three ayes and two abstentions (Germany and Santo Domingo). Resolution V coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian, and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours. The major issue here was when the universal day...

...this universal day is to be a mean solar day ; is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with...beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian ; and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours. VI. — That the Conference expresses the hope...

...this universal day is to be a mean solar day ; is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with...beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian ; and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours." 6. " That the Conference expresses the hope that...

...to be a mean solar day ; is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initiai meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian, and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours." This on being put to the vote, after some discussion,...

...declaring the universal day to be the mean solar day to commence for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, 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...