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Originally Posted by caf4926
Tell that to the Boffins at Greenwich.
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Here's another fact you may not know. Since it became possible to measure time very accurately, the true prime meridian is not where it's marked on the ground at Greenwich. Visitors hopping back and forth imagine that they are crossing the meridian, but the true meridian by atomic clocks is actually a few metres away. As a corollary, most maps of Britain are off by that much in terms of true longitudinal coordinates.
On the other side of the Channel, the French, until UTC, refused to call it GMT. They called it Paris time, diminished by X minutes and Y seconds or something like that.