[LEAPSECS] Degrees of Accommodating Time Based on Earth Rotation

[Tony Finch]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

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> I may be misremembering, I thought the longitude conference was in 1884 ?


Yes, but by that time there had already been 40 years of railway time in
the UK. We officially switched to a single time zone in 1880, but local
mean solar time had already been given up in most places for most
practical purposes by about 1855.

Tony.
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DECREASING 4 OR 5, OCCASIONALLY 6 LATER IN HUMBER AND THAMES. MODERATE OR
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