48 SANDFORD FLEMING ON THE TIME 
the new measure of time is equally related to every locality. By its very nature, “ Cosmic 
Time,” or by whatever name it may be known, must coincide with some one of the multi- 
plicity of existing times. The decision of the Washington Conference caused it to corres- 
pond with Greenwich Civil Time. Greenwich time is the local time of Greenwich. Cosmic 
Time is a new and an entirely different conception, it is the time of the world common to 
every nation. “Cosmic” and “ Greenwich” time are identical fortuitously, but the expres- 
sions imply two totally different ideas, and a proper deference to national sensitiveness 
suggests the good taste and expediency of distinguishing the two ideas by different terms. 
Some distinctive name is undoubtely called for, until the period arrives when the unifica- 
tion of time will be complete. In the not far distant future it may become equally as 
unnecessary to speak of “ Solar,” “ Lunar,” ‘‘ Astronomical,” “ Civil,” ‘ Nautical,” “ Local,” 
Cosmic,” or “ World” Time, as at present it is unnecessary to attach these or other dis- 
tinctive appelations to “Space.” The simple expression “Time” may then become 
sufficient for all purposes. 







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The relation between time and longitude is important. If longitude be reckoned by 
hour meridians as in the second and third columns of the table, that is to say numbered 
continually westward from the Antiprime Meridian, which is the true time zero, the in- 
