Talk:International Meridian Conference

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This is not encyclopedic. The Final Act is on the Web in other places, an external link will do just fine. E.g. http://wwp.GreenwichMeanTime.com/info/conference.htm.

What we need is a description of that the conference was about and why it was important.

Vermeer 14:41, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Time Zones

"the conference did not adopt any time zones, contrary to popular opinion."

Could someone who knows add in the information (link) about where the times zones were decided? -- 15:48, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

The history of time zones is in the article Time zone. Except for nautical time zones, which were decided at a conference in 1917, time zones on land have were never decided by any international conference—individual nations have always determined the time to be observed by their residents. — Joe Kress 19:38, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Resolution 7

What is this resolution getting at? To replace 60 minutes and 60 seconds for fractional degrees with decimal units? (e.g. millidegrees)? Or to replace 360 degrees with a metric figure divisible in 10? e.g. one deciarc would be 36 degrees, one centiarc would be 3.6 degrees?

And of time? To replace hours, minutes and seconds with metric units? What would be the base unit? The day? The hour? The second? Would a day instead be 86.4 kiloseconds? What is this resolution after? GBC 00:50, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

That idea is known as Decimal time, but I'm not sure that's what they were referring to... AnonMoos (talk) 10:08, 12 January 2008 (UTC)