Trafalgar 1805. Waterloo 1815. International Meridian Congress (Washington) 1884. France waits until they can adopt a name that does not mention Greenwich ...

Trafalgar 1805. Waterloo 1815. International Meridian Congress (Washington) 1884. France waits until they can adopt a name that does not mention Greenwich ... 1978. The French are very tenacious in their (to put it politely) arrogant obstructionist individualism. Shrug. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Meridian_Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Meridian_Confere... Resolution 2, fixing the meridian at Greenwich, was passed 22–1 (San Domingo, now the Dominican Republic, voted against); France and Brazil abstained. The French did not adopt the Greenwich meridian as the beginning of the universal day until 1911. Even then it refused to use the name "Greenwich", instead using the term "Paris mean time, retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds". France finally replaced this phrase with "Coordinated Universal Time" (UTC) in 1978.