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'Opposite of Greenwich', was proposed on the 13th October 1884 at the International Meridian Conference by Sandford Fleming

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The Prime Meridian is the meridian (line of longitude) at which the longitude is defined to be 0°.
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Without it international travel would be in turmoil and calling friends in faraway places at the right time impossible. Exactly 125 years after the Greenwich Meridian line was drawn, how and why did Britain become the centre of time?

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