On 2008-04-08, Steve Allen posted an interesting NY Times article
of 1882-01-17 on International Time.
The article states that the Third International Geographical Congress
(TIGC) of 1881-09 was held in Vienna. This is incorrect: that congress
convened not in Vienna but in Venice
Popular spreading of the notion of International Time for
telecommunications, using that name, predates the 1884 International
Meridian Conference. The New York Times reported on that in 1882.
Steve Allen wrote:
Popular spreading of the notion of International Time for
telecommunications, using that name, predates the 1884 International
Meridian Conference. The New York Times reported on that in 1882.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Seaman writes:
Oh yeah! I also heartily support Steve's implicit message here.
Rather than trashing one timescale, let's just simply complete the
proper system engineering started in the Nineteenth century and call
any such new timescale International
M. Warner Losh wrote:
Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
I can live with International Time as a name, but would far prefer
to have it be Terrestial Time, so it names the rock in question.
Or better yet, Earth Terrestial Time or Earth Normal Time or
Commercial Time, since TT already is an
