On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 shazzbat wrote:

As we are on the subject of time when was the hour/min/second adopted,
why is it so universal? The current calender is relatively modern, and
the beginning of the new year varies in different countries. So when was
our way of recording the time adopted, is it universal? Incidentally GMT
is no longer the standard for time, as with lots of other things the
Yanks have high-jacked it.

Nowadays GMT is referred to a UTC.

Only by USAnians, who hate the fact of GMT referring to Greenwich, ie
England. To them, Universal means American. They think they are the centre
of the universe.

Except that they haven't managed to move the prime meridian to America!

David

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