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 262by Royal Astronomical Society - 1885Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Scott Barrett - 2007 - 276 pages
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| Various - 2007 - 212 pages
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| Various - 2007 - 240 pages
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