Sanford Fleming's original proposal had the zones lettered A through Y (omitting J) starting with the zone whose central meridian is at 165 degrees E (the first zone to see the "new" day) and proceeding to the west. You can see this lettering scheme in Rex Woods's painting of Sanford Fleming giving his lecture on standard time to the Canada Institute in 1879. I've put a PDF file showing a scan of a B&W reproduction of the painting on one of our servers. The URL for the file is <http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/sundials/Sanford_Fleming.pdf>. -- Richard Langley Professor of Geodesy and Precision Navigation
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Gordon Uber wrote: >Thibaud, > >As far as I can tell, NIST, and Howse using the Admiralty Chart 5006, use the >notation you are familiar with. Perhaps there is a reversed notation using >lower-case letters. I sent a query to the Webmaster of Greenwich 2000, and >will let the list know if there is a response. > >Thank you for calling my attention to this matter. > >Gordon > > >At 10:40 AM 6/21/98 +0200, Thibaud Taudin-Chabot wrote: >>I checked that page. >>When I was in the (Dutch) Navy we were living in Alpha zone. According the >>table I am now living in November zone. Also in my time zone Juliet did not >>excist. >> >>I checked my (old) books and there it was: >>'Zones to the eastward are letterd A to M (J is omitted), those to the >>westward being letterd N to Y.' >>(Admirality Manual of Navigation, Vol I, 1970, page 359) >> >>Are those names changed in the meantime? >> >> >> >>At 09:26 20-6-98 -0700, you wrote: >>>The following page has names for most time zones. >>> >>>http://time.greenwich2000.com/time/info/timezone.htm > > > =============================================================================== Richard B. Langley Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geodetic Research Laboratory BITnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Phone: (506) 453-5142 University of New Brunswick FAX: (506) 453-4943 Fredericton, N.B., Canada E3B 5A3 Telex: 014-46202 Fredericton? Where's that? See: http://www.city.fredericton.nb.ca/ ===============================================================================
