Paris Mean Time

Paris Mean Time
   Greenwich Mean Time adapted to French chauvinism
   It was an insult to French pride that the meridian was judged to have been centred on an observatory in England:
    Even then [in 1911], they [the French] hesitated to refer directly to Greenwich mean time, preferring the locution 'Paris Mean Time, retarded by nine minutes and twenty-one seconds'. (Sobel, 1996)

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