Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Subject: Re: `GMT' -> `UT' in news header dates In-Reply-To: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of Tue, 26 Mar 1991 07:03:01 GMT Message-ID: Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. References: <1991Mar25.030637.8126@twinsun.com> <1991Mar25.211915.8268@watmath.waterloo.edu> <91Mar25.204233edt.1103@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> <1991Mar26.070301.13119@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1991 07:48:22 GMT Henry Spencer: "GMT" is understood almost everywhere, but it tends to irritate the non-English-speaking users. :-) "If Greenwich is still considered today to be the most natural position for the zero meridian, this merely represents the rump of the Eurocentric geographical world concept which now, at last, is crumbling away. The time has now come to reconsider this decision; in 1953 the famous observatory at Greenwich was moved to Herstmonceux near Hailsham, that is 20 minutes and 25 seconds to the east. The last reason for the retention of Greenwich as the zero meridian has thus vanished; the place is now just another London suburb. "The way is now finally clear to look for a natural location for the zero meridian; a place that is more than just a monument to the vanishing British Empire." Arno Peters, "The New Cartography", New York: Friendship Press, 1983 ISBN 0-377-00147-3 (Arno Peters is the designer of the Peters Projection, an equal area map projection which explicitly rejects the eurocentric distortions of designs like that of Mercator.) -- Msen Edward Vielmetti /|--- moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com