...superseded. Enlarging on the subject of timekeeping, conference delegates recommended that this universal day begin "for all the world at the moment of mean midnight...to 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....

...scale. A 'universal day' would continue to be an average solar day. However, the universal day was 'to begin for all the world at the moment of mean...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...

...and which shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard time, where desirable." 5. " That this universal day is to be a mean solar day...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...

...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...is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours. The great volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, in the Straits of Sunda, which took place in August of last...

...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...to 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...