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Abstract

THE Washington Prime Meridian Conference has adopted a resolution declaring the universal day to be the mean solar day, beginning, for all the world, at the moment of mean midnight of the initial meridian, coinciding with the beginning of the civil day, and that meridian to be counted from zero up to twenty-four hours. The resolution further declares that the Conference expresses the hope that, as soon as practicable, astronomical and nautical days may be arranged everywhere to begin at mean midnight. Prof. Janssen, of France, moved that the Conference should express the hope that technical investigations to regulate and extend the application of the decimal system to the divisions of the circle and of time would be resumed, in order to permit of the extending of that application to all cases where it might present real advantages. The motion was adopted, and the Conference adjourned until Wednesday.