Interesting about Utrecht time. In the US there was no
standardization of time zones until railroad travel made it
necessary. Generally each city had its own time, referred to
as "Chicago time", "New York time", etc. I don't know if these times
were integral numbers of hours apart. They may have been very
arbitrary.

BJB

--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "Harry ten Veen" <h.ten.veen@t...> wrote:
> That is indeed an interesting thought Brian!
>
> There are already some people active! see:
> http://www.confluence.org/index.php
>
> Btw. In the city of Utrecht (the Netherlands) in the
Volkssterrenwacht
> Sonnenborgh the so-called
> Utrecht-meridiaan is marked. It is on 5 deg. 7 min. east.
> At this point the Utrecht-standard-time was calculated and measured
using a
> large telescope. In the 1920's they abandoned Utrecht-time.
>
> gl
> Harry ten Veen
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bjbutler@b...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@y...>
> Sent: donderdag 21 juni 2001 14:24
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Really Abitrary Points
>
>
> > Jack's recent mention of the Greenwich meridian reminded me of an
> > idea I had a while back for another class of points -
intersections
> > of important lines of latitude and longitude. For example, where
the
> > Greenwich meridian crosses the equator, the arctic circle, or the
> > antarctic circle. Ditto for the international date line. Then,
of
> > course, there are all of the intermediate meridians and
latitudes, 30
> > degrees, 45 degrees, 60 degrees, etc. This could be combined with
> > some trigonometry and a good clock to produce some interesting
> > coincidences. Just another way to pin yourself in space and
time, I
> > guess.
> >
> > BJB