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   Today I learned (todayilearned@noc.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 06:37:59 JST Today I learned

   TIL that France did not adopt the Greenwich meridian as the beginning of the universal day until 1911. Even then it still refused to use the name "Greenwich", instead using the term "Paris mean time, retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds".

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Meridian_Conference
   #til #todayilearned
   https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ka74iy/til_that_france_did_not_adopt_the_greenwich/