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The Royal Observatory Greenwich celebrates its 350th anniversary today. Founded by King Charles II on June 22, 1675, the ...

Get information about the Greenwich Mean Time time zone. Local time and date, DST adjusted (where ever daylight saving time is applicable) current time in all cities/countries belonging to Time zone.

Greenwich Mean Time wouldn’t become legally mandated until 1880, apparently because folks kept showing up late to court and blaming their local time zone for the discrepancy. But accurate clocks ...

The clocks go forward on Sunday, marking the beginning of British Summer Time (BST). This marks the end of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and will mean longer, lighter evenings from next week. But ...

Rolex may have established itself as the definitive GMT, but it was actually Longines that invented the first dual-timezone wristwatch a century ago.. The Zulu Time was introduced in 1925 as a tool ...

Therefore, the distribution of Greenwich Mean Time via telegraph signals became absolutely crucial. ... though – and that is where Ruth Belville, the “Greenwich Time Lady”, came in.