Nov. 17, 2018
8:58 p.m.
On Sat, 17 Nov 2018, Paul Eggert wrote:
So the scenario of the ball being dropped at 17:00 GMT daily appears to be wrong - most likely the astronomer in London got a.m. and p.m. mixed up, and
An astronomer before 1925 referring to GMT would have been using the old astronomical convention where the day started at noon, not midnight. -- Joseph S. Myers jsm@polyomino.org.uk