[LEAPSECS] move over sailors
Steve Allen
sla at ucolick.org
Fri May 20 21:14:05 EDT 2011
According to this podcast the concept of Greenwich Mean Time
originated with railroads in 1840.
http://www.theworld.org/2011/05/greenwic-mark-ovenden-railway-maps/
I guess it's sorry to all you sailors and the almanacs from before that.
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