[tz] TIme in Belize

[Steve Allen]

On Sat 2020-11-07T19:37:59-0800 Paul Eggert hath writ:
> This says nothing about civil time observed in Belize city *before* 1912;
> it's only an old-fashioned way to specify civil time in Belize *after* 1912.

I think a good avenue is to seek a library which has a complete
collection of "The Honduras Almanack".  One copy from 1829 is widely
found online, e.g.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_8627122_000/

That 1829 edition says that the Belize Meridian is longitude
88 deg 02 arcmin 00 arcsec.
That location likely applies to a location in Fort George, and
the WGS 84 longitude for the Fort George site is about
88 deg 10 arcmin 55 arcsec,
so that gives a clock difference of over 30 seconds.

If such a library exists then it should give clues for the evolution
of the believed coordinates of Belize.

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