[tz] Hong Kong time 1941

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Sat Nov 17 23:12:50 UTC 2018


On Sat 2018-11-17T11:25:07-0800 Paul Eggert hath writ:
> Also, a British astronomer H.P.H. (I don't know who that is) reported in the
> February 1905 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that the
> 1904-10-30 time ball drop in Hong Kong occurred at 17:00 GMT (presumably
> this was GMT the previous day).

almost certainly Henry Park Hollis
http://www.royalobservatorygreenwich.org/articles.php?article=1099

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