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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
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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.)

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