On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
On Jan 21, 2011, at 3:48 PM, Clint Chaplin wrote:
Hey, Paris lobbied heavily to have the Prime Meridian be fixed in Paris.
That would have really made them the center of the navigational world.
Yes, and then they got the BIH, which got them the power to change GMT to
UTC. (GMT no longer has any official existence.)
Wasn't the official definition of the meter also tied to Paris?
Bob
Marshall
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:37 PM, todd glassey
<tglassey(_at_)earthlink(_dot_)net> wrote:
On 1/21/2011 10:22 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Ole Jacobsen <ole(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Does anyone see the irony of us even discussing concerns about, of all
things, FOOD when it comes to Paris?
What else is there to discuss in Paris?
Making Paris the center of the world - ever look at French Navigation Charts
- relative to Admiralty charts from any other nation?
Todd
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