time

LostPasword2

I see that the Conversatron uses GMT. Explain!

Responses:

Crow T. Robot

Well, Greenwich Mean Time was originally established to aid naval navigation after the discovery of the "New World" in the fifteenth century.

Tom Servo

With the proliferation of railroads and increased travel in the nineteenth century, Britain officially established GMT as a standard for timekeeping on land as well as water in 1880.

Crow T. Robot

The USA adopted GMT in 1883, as the telegraph was creating increasingly close ties between all major cities of the expanding nation.

Tom Servo

Then, in October 1884, the International Meridian Conference was convened in Washington, DC at the behest of President Chester Arthur for the purpose of establishing a world meridian.

Crow T. Robot

Given its widespread nautical use as well as its previous adoption by the United States and Great Britain, the Greenwich meridian was approved by a wide majority.

Tom Servo

Though San Domingo voted against it.

Crow T. Robot

France and Brazil abstained.

Tom Servo

Dickweeds.

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