[time-nuts] International time meridian

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <000501c7380e$c6008950$0900a8c0 at cyrus>, "Bill Hawkins" writes:

>Paris has the physical
>standards of meter and kilogram, so why not atomic time.

Because UK had more sea-charts than france in 1884.

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