In spite of the war, one intornational conference is to take place this year that which has for its purpose the standardizing of railway time in Europe. In the last few years the use of the Greenwich meridian as the time zero has made great progress on the Continent, Portugal being the last country to come into line. France made the necessary change three years ago and at the same time got rid of the anomaly whereby French railway time was five minutes slow of that of the rest of France. The times of Russia, Bul-gona, Greece, Holland, Ireland and rdizing and can make the change most easily. The meridian of Pulkova which gives European Russia its time varies barely a. minute—actually seventy-eight seconds—from the standard meridian two hours fast of the time zero
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