Everything about The Anglo-french Conference On Time-keeping At Sea totally explained
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Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea was held in London in June 1917. The Conference established the
nautical date line and adopted an ideal form of the terrestrial
time zone system for use at sea. It recommended that time changes required by changes of
longitude be made in one-hour steps. This recommendation was adopted between 1920 and 1925 by all major fleets, including
British,
French and
American. The rules applied to almost all naval ships and to many non-naval ships. Nevertheless, up to the
Second World War, the old practice of keeping local apparent time prevailed on many independent merchant ships.
The nautical date line is implied but not explicitly drawn on time zone maps. It follows the 180° meridian except where it's interrupted by
territorial waters adjacent to land, forming gaps: it's a pole-to-pole dashed line. Ships are required to adopt the
standard time of a country when they're within its territorial waters, but must revert to international time zones (15° wide pole-to-pole gores) as soon as they leave territorial waters. The 15° gore that's offset from
GMT or
UT1 (not
UTC) by twelve hours is bisected by the nautical date line into two 7.5° gores that differ from GMT by ±12 hours.
In reality nautical time zones are used only for radio communication etc. Internally on the ship, for example for work and meal hours, the ship may use a suitable time of its own choosing.
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