On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Deckers, Michael wrote:
> The word, universal, for days starting at midnight, already appears
> in the resolutions of the International Meridian Conference
> held 1884-10-01..22 in Washington DC:
It already appears in the *title* of the conference, which was held "for
the purpose of fixing a prime meridian and a universal day". So you'll
need to look at the history leading up to that conference for why a
"universal day" was so termed.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28_at_cam.ac.uk
Received on Wed Jul 09 2003 - 02:28:58 PDT