New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-13

On October rs last year the delegates TO
the international Conference of the Hour, in
GLIDING the United States and twenty-three
other countries, assembled at Paris and signed
an agreement to be presented for ratification
TO the countries represented for the establish
ment of standard time for the world and the
naming OF Paris as the point from which
Greenwich time was to be distributed. Some
months ago the official clocks of Paris, by pre-
arrangement, were stopped and reset at Green
witch time.
SIGNALS TO BE SENT OUT BY RADIO
APPARATUS ON EIFFEL TOWER.
The signals were to be sent out by means
of the radio apparatus on the Eiffel Tower
every day at 10 a. m. and at midnight. Other
stations were to assist in the distribution other
hours, which will not interfere, having been
selected for signals from these. For instance,
the Naval Observatory at Washington, the
first, by the way. TO send out time signals,
does so at noon and 10 p. m, and hours which
will not conflict have been named Tor the OBJ
servatories at Manila, Mogadascio, Somali
Coast, Africa; San Fernando, Brazil; TIM
buctoo, Africa; Norddech, Germany; Mas
souah, Africa and San Francisco. In this way
mariners on all Of the seven seas will be fur
nished with the correct time of day in the part
of the world in which their bark may be
cleaving the waves.
To the mariner the exactness or inexact-
ness of his knowledge may be all the differ
ence between life and death, the loss OF his
ship and safe entrance to the harbor OF his
destination. In sailing his ship the master
relies upon his ehronometer to tell him no"
far east or west of the longitude OF Green
witch, England, he may be. Set at Greenwich
time when he sails away from port, each
day, when he takes the sun as it crosses the
meridian, through comparison he is enabled
to tell his longitude with exactness. Shouid
his chronometer run slow fast he would
err in his calculations and, without knowledge
Of the fact, be so far out OF his course as 10
be in danger should he be in the neighborhood
of the coast. 1t is said that an error OF one
second in a calculation made at sea would
place the ship a thousand feet out OF It's true
position. That is one of the great and sig
niicant results of the accomplishment OF the
feat of sending a clock tick across the ocean
to the American shore.
THE MARINER WILL ALWAYS HAVE
GREENWICH TIME.
Wherever on the lonesome sea the mariner
may be, if his ship is equipped with wireless
apparatus he can secure Greenwich time 10
the fraction of second. and note the varia-
ton, i. any, in his chronometes' ms cor
rection he can make every day. Thus ne is
assured of his exact position when he makes
his daily observation.
1t is stated that already this method OF DIS
tributing time has served important pur-
pose The officials charged with marking the
boundary between the territories OF France
and Spain in Morocco were enabled to certify
their bearings and thereby do their work more
accurately. This manner Of dropping aerial
time balls" was also utilized in determining the
boundaries between the Congo lands and the
adjacent German possessions, and Liberia and
the French African possessions. 1t is expected