SOURCES – Why Greenwich Is the Official Starting Point for Time

The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “Why Greenwich Is the Official Starting Point for Time.”

  1. International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884
  2. IERS Technical Note No. 36 — IERS Conventions
  3. Why the Greenwich meridian moved
  4. BIPM documentation on Coordinated Universal Time and leap seconds
  5. Loi du 9 mars 1911 modification de l’heure legale Francaise pour la mettre en concordance avec le Systeme universel des fuseaux horaires
  6. Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives