At the international meridian conference of 1884, the French allowed the resolution for using the Greenwich meridian[1] to go through on the condition that anot

At the international meridian conference of 1884, the French allowed the resolution for using the Greenwich meridian[1] to go through on the condition that another resolution promoting the use of the metric (or ‘decimal’) system (including decimal time!) also went through. [1] or as the French called it, “Paris mean time, retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds”