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Re: CHAT: Timezones was The English/French counting system

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 11:34
Tristan McLeay scripsit:

> Don't forget that if you based it from just about anywhere else, some > continent would be split between two days; as it is, the IDL goes > practically bam-smack through the Pacific. This is the primary reason _I_ > wouldn't move it.
Indeed, that was an important point at the 1884 conference, and one of the main reasons why the system of W and E longitude was made universal, rather than a system with longitude degrees counted from 0 to 360 (which of course would lead to the question: which way?). -- One art / There is John Cowan <jcowan@...> No less / No more http://www.reutershealth.com All things / To do http://www.ccil.org/~cowan With sparks / Galore -- Douglas Hofstadter