 | 1884
...and at a subsequent sitting the Conference adopted a resolution declaring the universal day to be the mean solar day, beginning, for all the world, at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day, and to be counted from zero up to 24 hours. The resolution... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887
...represented, Greenwich was accepted as the most expedient zero, and a proposal for a universal day, to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, and the hours of which should be counted continuously from zero to twentyfour, was adopted.* The advantage... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1884
...standard time, where desirable." 5. " That this universal day is to be a mean solar day; is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian ; and is to be counted from... | |
 | 1884
...Finally it was resolved, by 15 votes in favour, 2 negatives, and 7 not voting, that this universal day be a mean solar day, beginning for all the world at...the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the civil day and date of that meridian, and be counted from 0 up to 24 hours. Put... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1884
...an universal day has also been recommended by the Conference. It is to be a mean solar day to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian, and is to be counted from... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1884
...an universal day has also been recommended by the Conference. It is to be a mean solar day to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian, and is to be counted from... | |
 | 1884
...standard time, where desirable." 5. " That this universal day is to be a mean solar day; is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian ; and is to be counted from... | |
 | 1884
...standard time, where desirable." 6. " That this universal day is to be a mean solar day; is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian ; and is to be counted from... | |
 | 1884
...universal day for certain purposes other than local, this universal day to be a mean solar day, to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian, and to be counted from zero... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1885
...counted in two directions up to 180° ; east longitude being plus, and west longitude minus. Eesolutious were also adopted in favor of adopting a universal...of the United States naval officers under command tf Lieut. Commander CH Davis, USN, in measuring from Panama down the west coast of South America to... | |
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That this universal day is to be a mean solar day ; is to begin for all the world at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day and date of that meridian ; and is to be counted from zero up to twenty-four... 
