Talk:International Meridian Conference

Proposal
This is not encyclopedic. The Final Act is on the Web in other places, an external link will do just fine. E.g. http://wwp.GreenwichMeanTime.com/info/conference.htm.

What we need is a description of that the conference was about and why it was important.

Vermeer 14:41, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Time Zones
"the conference did not adopt any time zones, contrary to popular opinion."

Could someone who knows add in the information (link) about where the times zones were decided? -- 15:48, 22 January 2007 (UTC)


 * The history of time zones is in the article Time zone. Except for nautical time zones, which were decided at a conference in 1917, time zones on land have were never decided by any international conference—individual nations have always determined the time to be observed by their residents. — Joe Kress 19:38, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Resolution 7
What is this resolution getting at? To replace 60 minutes and 60 seconds for fractional degrees with decimal units? (e.g. millidegrees)? Or to replace 360 degrees with a metric figure divisible in 10? e.g. one deciarc would be 36 degrees, one centiarc would be 3.6 degrees?

And of time? To replace hours, minutes and seconds with metric units? What would be the base unit? The day? The hour? The second? Would a day instead be 86.4 kiloseconds? What is this resolution after? GBC 00:50, 22 October 2007 (UTC)


 * That idea is known as Decimal time, but I'm not sure that's what they were referring to... AnonMoos (talk) 10:08, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Too sparse
This "article" is much too sparse. What was said, why were the decisions taken, why were they important, what was the historical context, what was the role of the notable participants, and what did they think about the conference before and afterwards, what is its legacy and when were the open ends tied up? 82.139.86.4 (talk) 15:59, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

"Regarding resolution 6:"
The Royal Naval decision was decreed on 1805-10-11; Trafalgar was 1805-10-21 and the new system was not then implemented there (look at the ships' logs).

The wider Nautical Day was not directly affected thereby; one can hardly expect, for example, either the US Navy of the time or far-flung British merchant shipping to have considered Admiralty decisions (when eventually known) as binding. Don't use "nautical".

For the astronomical day, it would be well to say very explicitly at what instant of London civil time the change was made, or which 12 hours of the astronomical clock were jumped over.

82.163.24.100 (talk) 14:40, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Delegates who were not present
The current version now lists the names of all the delegates of the IMC, including those of seven people who are claimed not to have been present. This is true only for the first day, some (if not all) of these persons arrived later and only participated in the latter part of the conference. AstroLynx (talk) 08:36, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree. Fixed Adpete (talk) 01:18, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
 * This was reversed? Why? Hobbema (talk) 10:58, 15 April 2024 (UTC)