Why astronomers created Greenwich Mean Time 🕛️ For centuries, humans have relied on the sun for timekeeping. You can tell from its height above the horizon and its position roughly how many hours of daylight you have. And for most people, that's fine. But for astronomers, solar time is too variable, It's incredibly inaccurate and not exactly 24 hours. This is why astronomers at the Royal Observatory Greenwich created an average or mean day of exactly 24 hours. So Greenwich Mean Time is solar ti

The Royal Observatory is where east meets west at Longitude 0°. Why was Greenwich chosen as the home of the Prime Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time, and what do those terms mean? https://bit.ly/32qrqqB | Royal Museums Greenwich

GMT means Greenwich Mean Time (from Greenwich, London). Details in the comments 👇 #canada #timezones #fblifestyle | G Ruth Dianne Castillo