Originally Posted by braininblack
Ok self owned... gmt and uct are the same thing  |
Pretty much everywhere in the world UTC is known as GMT. I think mainly the military are responsible for the name UTC being used, I have rarely heard it referred to tbh.
The atomic clock in greenwich is the most accurate clock on the planet, and is located at the Greenwich Meridian Line at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. Which sits bang on 0 degrees longitude. I've been there.... its sounds more impressive than it is.
Thus concludes our lesson for today ;p
Edit.... lesson continued....
0 degrees longitude sits through the UK because we were the ones who made the first maps of the entire world and guess what we stuck right in the middle... thats right..... us lol. In reality there was a big conference and they voted on some stuff.... france abstained.... typical!
http://wwp.millennium-dome.com/info/conference.htm
read that ;p
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