Exploring London’s Royal Observatory, the capital’s original time machine
As the clocks go forward this weekend, the FT’s senior graphics artist walks a fine (meridian) line through the birthplace of ...
Eclipse chasers in awe as moon takes a nibble from the sun
At the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, home of the meridian, the partial eclipse started at 10.07am, with the moon appearing ...
Reflections from sunny Greenwich as the clocks change to summer time
The incumbent, the 15th holder of the title, is Martin John Rees, the Baron Rees of Ludlow, a cross-bench peer and former ...
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Understanding time zones
There are 24 time zones. There is an imaginary line running through the UK called the Prime Meridian. It runs through a place in London called Greenwich. The Prime Meridian splits the world into ...
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MP to push Ujjain as Global Prime Meridian: Mohan Yadav
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh government is working to replace Greenwich in UK with Ujjain in MP as the Global Prime Meridian (GPM). Madhya Pradesh chief minister Mohan Yadav shared the information with his ...
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Miller, Kramer: Where time begins — a proposal to relocate the Prime Meridian to St. Paul
When longitude was first understood sailors measured their position by degrees east or west of their port of departure. Later many countries established their own prime meridians. It was not until the ...
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Greenwich Meridian for France.
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