[LEAPSECS] TI incunabula

[Steve Allen]

Popular spreading of the notion of International Time for
telecommunications, using that name, predates the 1884 International
Meridian Conference.  The New York Times reported on that in 1882.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9F06E6DF123BE033A25754C1A9679C94639FD7CF&oref=slogin

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