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Show Standardizing the Longitude. Heretofore England and the United States have been the only leading countries reckoning from Greenwich. Germany adopted the meridian of Berlin, Ber-lin, France that of Paris, and bo on. However, in 1911, a congress of the-makers the-makers of nautical almanacs of the different nations was held at Paris, at which it was decided that the places, of sun, moon and planets will In future fu-ture be published in terms of Greenwich Green-wich time by all prominent national ephemerides. It Is probable that this action will have the effect of causing all chart, map and atlas makers ta also 'adopt the Greenwich meridian. Christian Herald. |