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Greenwich Mean Time Becomes Legal

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Greenwich Mean Time Becomes Legal

Airy, George Biddell · Greenwich · Astronomer Royal

Greenwich Mean Time became the legal standard for time in Great Britain, cementing the observatory's national importance.

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