On September 24, 2007, Tony Finch wrote:
....
I don't remember any discussions at the Washington Conference about
restrictions on the scope of their universal time system. As far as I
remember, their recommendation was that all countries should adopt the
American time zone system of integer hour offsets from UT, as an
intermediate step towards everyone using zulu time for everyday purposes.
Funny, I was just helping some kids with a project on the 1884 Washington
Conference. Various ideas for time zone systems were discussed, but no
recommendation was made. They did propose the adoption of a universal day
(GMT), but it was not to interfere with the use of local or standard time.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17759
-- Steve Barberi
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