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Re: Greenwich 19th and 20th c conventions
From: Zane Grey
Date: 2019 Jun 10, 23:41 -0700
From: Zane Grey
Date: 2019 Jun 10, 23:41 -0700
That's really interesting! So it was 1925... I knew GMT was from noon to noon as the astronomers in Greenwich obviously wanted the whole nights observations in one night and that we swapped to GMT -12 but I had just assumed it would have been in the 17-1800s! 1925 is really late!