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" That 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 the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian ; and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four... "
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Page 262
by Royal Astronomical Society - 1885
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Déliberations Et Mémoires de la Société Royale Du Canada

Royal Society of Canada - 1887 - 580 pages
...to begin 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 is to be counted from zero to twenty-four hours." The opening of the National Congress at Washington shortly followed the International...
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Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac

United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office, Great Britain. Nautical Almanac Office - 1992 - 786 pages
..."That 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...to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours." "That the Conference expresses the hope that as soon as may be practicable the astronomical and nautical...
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Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America

Ian R. Bartky - 2000 - 346 pages
...conference delegates recommended that this universal day begin "for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding...be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours." This start of the universal day was inconsistent with the resolution adopted the year before at Rome. Delegates...
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Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity

Lynda Jessup - 2001 - 312 pages
...be an 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...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1885 - 958 pages
...That 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...to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours." 6. " That the Conference expresses the hope that as soon as may be practicable the astronomical and...
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American Metrological Society Proceedings, Volumes 1-5

American Metrological Society - 1889 - 948 pages
...That 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...is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours. VI. — That the Conference expresses the hope that, as soon as may be practicable, the astronomical...
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An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord ...

Joseph Whitaker - 1886 - 634 pages
...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...be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours." This on being put to the vote, after some discussion, was adopted, the ayes numbering fifteen, noes two,...
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Nature, Volume 31

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1885 - 650 pages
...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...
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