[time-nuts] French Time offset

Lux, James P james.p.lux at jpl.nasa.gov
Wed Mar 18 19:18:21 UTC 2009


> 
> Actually, there this paper:
> 
> http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/seago.pdf
> 
> says that the delta was 9 minutes and 20 seconds (see page 
> 10) Historic Universal Time (GMT) in France.
> 
> Warner
> 

9 min 20 sec = 9.333 mins = 0.155 hours = 2.33 degrees of longitude = 2 deg 20 min longitude = longitude of Paris

Which makes sense.. The article actually talks about France defining GMT in terms of PMT.  


Jim


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