When did Greenwich mean time start?

in intorduceyourself •  7 years ago 

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was adopted as the world's time standard at the Washington Meridian Conference in 1884. This conference also established Universal Time, from which the international 24-hour time-zone system grew. This is why all time zones refer back to GMT on the prime meridian.

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