[LEAPSECS] At the centre of time

[Richard B. Langley]

At the centre of time

By Lucy Rodgers
BBC News

Without it international travel would be in turmoil and calling friends in faraway
places at the right time impossible. Exactly 125 years after the Greenwich Meridian
line was drawn, how and why did Britain become the centre of time?

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8266883.stm>

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 Richard B. Langley                            E-mail: lang at unb.ca
 Geodetic Research Laboratory                  Web: http://www.unb.ca/GGE/
 Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering    Phone:    +1 506 453-5142
 University of New Brunswick                   Fax:      +1 506 453-4943
 Fredericton, N.B., Canada  E3B 5A3
     Fredericton?  Where's that?  See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/
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