Could another country declare that their time is what all watches should be set by??

Question

I am glad it is us (UK) but there is no reason why another country couldn't say it. Accurist sponsors our talking clock-what is stopping Nike sponsoring... Hobart in Tasmania or Cape of Good Hope or anywhere!?! It would still be the same time no matter where you are, but woud the speaking clock in other countries say, sponsored by adidas in Germany, or Victorinox in Switzerland (they know a lot about clocks) or Tibet,...well, time is just a concept of 8...33... and 40 seconds... beep beep beep.

Seriously though, is it possible for England to lose the worlds time?

Answer 1

The main reason why longitude 0 is still the point where midday UST is determined is not because it passes through London (the original reason) but that it's opposite, longitude 180, passes through the Pacific and so makes a good location for the International Date Line (midnight UST). Putting it anywhere else would lead to the inconveniences arising from having the International Date Line in a populated area. It is pure coincidence that London is 180 degrees away from the emptiest part of the planet.

Answer 2

Thumbs up for the first answerer for managing to translate this question. All I see are random words.

Answer 3

UK has it only because the longitude 0 passes through grenwich.  people will not want to change longitude numbers again and hence only grenwich can be zero time.  the 0 longitude doesnt pass through many countries and regardless of whether another place wants to usurp the "G" in GMT to "whatever"MT, it makes no difference to the rest of the world

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Answer 4

Key in GMT on Google and you can read all about it. Then if you have an intelligent question to ask, come back!

Answer 5

Accurist make watches. Nike make trainers.

It used to be done on solar time. GMT was used by mariners to calculate longitude. Eventually more and more started using it, even alongside solar time and then other places started adopting it. So when other countries started using it, it was so many hours or half hours ahead/behind GMT. It became official some years ago. Greenwich is the place of the Royal Observatory. Hence the importance of Greenwich.

The earth is getting slower, so who knows? Maybe one day time will change. But GMT has been the international time reference for some years.

Being that GMT is a time that countries adopted themselves, England won't 'lose' it any time soon.

Answer 6

Wow what have you been sniffing??

Answer 7

The French did, not suprisingly. They have now conformed to GMT, however they did have their own Meridian, going through the centre of Paris, for several years.

Answer 8

Didn't you know that...

On 1 January 1972, GMT was replaced as the international time reference by Coordinated Universal Time, maintained by an ensemble of atomic clocks around the world.

Universal Time (UT) is a timescale based on the rotation of the Earth which is practically proportional to the sidereal time. It is a modern continuation of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), i.e., the mean solar time on the meridian of Greenwich which is the conventional zero meridian for geographic longitude.

So, in effect, the UK is not declaring anything to anyone about measuring time. It's more to do with the 0 meridian that has been set a long time ago and which is convenient to use as it is.

Answer 9

Not all the world respects time as we know it.

The Moscow Standard Time Zone is 3 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time: GMT+3, and in Russia all Russian Time Zones are specified relative to Moscow Time.

Answer 10

Never heard of time zones, then?

Answer 11

COUPLE of INTRESTING points about time...first of all accurist or time keepers as they where once called...specialy in switzerland the land of the cuckoclock and all magnificent time piceces..the windows in the watchmakers work shops are all facing a eastern direction with a slight angle to them and a certain sqaurish side..to make use and maximise the suns clarity and brightness needed for the naked eye to pin point those it,s bitsy jewlles they fit in watches and the whole micro cosmic enginering of a watch.to be perfect in every aspect. The other thing is that ancient romans had a 9 day week..as we know they used 2 kinds of time aparutus the water clock and the sundial where the 2 most earliest when water was not avialable they used the marked candle..what made them know reall time? rooster or sunbreak? CARTIER  jewllers where the first to make a wrist watch...AS we know we are acustomed to ..GMT time because of the longtituted..by the way it is also known as ZULU TIME......AND i know belive we all are on ATOMIC TIME.....but when the new mellenuim came around in 2000..the first country to see the suns rays was the pacific island of KIRIBATIS.  ..question should we follow the suns rays at day break as the start of time or the first moonshadow hits earth? what is time and why do we adhere to it like a god? and should we ?after all at the end what was it all about?

Answer 12

No because every country has their OWN time.  Not everyone has England's time.  The GMT is in England because they said it was 100 years ago but it has now been disproved but not changed.