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============= Longitude | HOUR MERIDIANS. |Simultaneous
  from |----------------------------------------------| hours in
Greenwich.| | | the several
          |Proposed names of sectional times. | Numbers. | sections.
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---------- Degrees.| | | ----------| | | 180 |Transition time | 0 or 24th|12 midnight 165 west |Alaskan | 1st......| 1 A. M. 150 |Hawaii | 2d ......| 2 135 |Sitka | 3d ......| 3 120 |Pacific (Adopted in U.S. and Can.)| 4th......| 4 105 |Mountain " " | 5th......| 5 90 |Central (American) time " " | 6th......| 6 75 |Eastern (or Coastwise) " " | 7th......| 7 60 |La Plata | 8th......| 8 45 |Brazilian | 9th......| 9 30 |Central Atlantic |10th......|10 15 |West African |11th......|11 0 |Int’l or Unvs’l (Used in Gt.  Brit.)|12th......|12 noon. 15 east |Continental (Used in Sweden.) |13th......| 1 P. M. 30 |Bosporus |14th......| 2 45 |Caucasus |15th......| 3 60 |Ural |16th......| 4 75 |Bombay |17th......| 5 90 |Central Asian |18th......| 6 105 |Siam |19th......| 7 120 |East Asian |20th......| 8 135 |Japan |21st......| 9 150 |East Australian |22d.......|10 165 |New Caledonian |23d.......|11 ------------------------------------------------------------
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I have no desire, however, to press on the Conference the consideration of the question of local time reckoning.  But, as the system adopted in the United States and Canada has proved successful, and is now firmly established, I have deemed it proper that a statement of this fact and of the possibilities of the application of the system to other parts of the world should be made to the Congress.  I will now, therefore, withdraw my amendment.

Mr. RUTHERFURD, Delegate of the United States.  The Delegate of Italy has moved, as an amendment to the first part of the resolution offered by me, the fifth resolution adopted in the Conference at Rome.  Really, in spirit and in substance, there is little or no difference between them, except that the Conference at Rome has specified that the objects they had in view as suitable for regulation by universal time were these, namely:  “For the internal service of the great administrations of means of communication, such as railways, steamships, telegraphs, and post-offices.”