The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK FROM LONDON, BENjN AND I
All the World to Get It's Time
from the EiffeL Toner in Paris
international Hour Association Formed in Paris ia Give
Greenwich lime by Wireless Messages to Shps
at Sea and Stations on Land

cars ago, in Fcbruarv. 1911 on ,t,o co.
'.', OF IN" reformation OF time In FRANCS
i.'i our adherence 20 Grconwcs, Tine y.
used TINS Question here in All it's do.
guns We Will only refer TO IL. Therefor.
very sGmmarily.
y" 1''S moving planetary ball. on Tho
N'o'"uhs surface OF which the crco. NV.
''' % mo unfolds our cphcncral exist
t''e' Time only exists relatively ,,.,h.
movement Of Tic Garth in conncc,,o, Mn
''e ''pa5ent course oc the other heavenly
ooo''s. The sun not being able to sbioo a,
''' same moment above all the noip,s or
'' '"u"d machine, the result is tha. two
'''S""oTinc localities or two stroc,s ,.o,,,
''e'r together have not exactly tho same
QUO noun. In ctr attitudes . diet,,c.
'' metres '55' yards from west To- cas-, or
VI inc opposite direction corresDopds -
,''c'ec OF a second If limo tn b,
10y IN accord with the hour given b.
~ apparent advance Of .Apolio's chariot
would be necessary for us to change tba
N'''''oh OF the hands OF our watchos a.
%" Oh our movements from east TO ,vc,t
w :" 'He opposite direction and 20 he con.
s'di''F III disagreement among ourselves
Simplifying the rtmc.
10 AVOID the manifold disputes which
would follow, it is indispcnsabIo ;, s,.,
PITY tho question Of time. To maka :,
completely uniform Is utonia. Tint
"'u'u DC 70 wish TO make OF the dav-.t.r
'''e n'snt-star for our antipodcs, To r,o-
THY Phoebus and his poetic nocturnal,
court at noon for the Inhabitants of the
opposite hemisphere. Human Ioric so,na
ilineS 50 hesitatinG. has recoilej from thai
anachronisln.
II mas been found wiser to divide tho
terrestrial globe into twenty-four section.
from north TO south, each one measuring
fifteen degrees in width All the coun.
ues included i'll one of these sections have
the same official hour al the same instant
They are an hour behind those or tho coo
non on the right. to the east. and are "a
much ahead OF those on tho left or to the
west This system of hour sections has
received the united approval of nearly all
civilized nations. with very few excep.
uons, and this understanding had for II,
coroHary the foundation OF the new In
iernational Hour Association. The choic.
OF the nation which was TO be the de-
pository of the universal data as 10 time
might have aroused certain rivalries. But
rermany has Is compensation the Cen
trai Astronomical Bureau OF Kicl. and
ENGLAND can console herself by thinking
that she gives the tone. the the" of the
world hour. because Paris has adopted
that OF Greenwich
Efffci Tower Internntionnli.cd
So the Eiffel Tower, whose scientific
usefulness is constantly affirmed has
been internationalizc,l and gives twice y.
day, morning and evening the hour OF
Paris to the world. Other stations. OF
which tha- OF Norideich is now in opera
ton, will reply to our uertizian signals at
definite moments and the comparison OF
All these messages will in the last ANALYSIS
permit Of measuring the hour with great
precision
This precision which il hoped for does
not have for its object merely an intel
ectual diversion 1t Will have It's practical
reflex in navigation. IN geodesy in the de-
Of frontiers. in meteorology. liz
cosmology, in voyages OF exploration and
The like, without counting the less scien-
life circumstances OF our daily life. Let
us greet then the era of an Internal ,nal
line accord which is beginning.