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    The Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea was a conference held in London in June of 1917. The Conference established the nautical date line and adopted an ideal form of the terrestrial time zone system for use at sea.

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    The Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea was a conference held in London in June of 1917. The Conference established the nautical date line and adopted an ideal form of the terrestrial time zone system for use at sea.

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    The Anglo-French Conference on Time-
    keeping at Sea was a conference held in
    London in June of 1917. The Conference
    established the nautical date line and
    adopted an ideal form of the terrestrial
    time zone system for use at sea. It
    recommended that time changes required
    by changes of longitude be made in one-
    hour steps. This recommendation was
    adopted between 1920 and 1925 by all
    major fleets, including British, French and
    American. The rules applied to almost all
    naval ships and to many non-naval ships.
    Nevertheless, up to the Second World War,
    the old practice of keeping local apparent
    time prevailed on many independent
    merchant ships.

    The nautical date line is implied but not


    explicitly drawn on time zone maps. It
    follows the 180° meridian except where it
    is interrupted by territorial waters adjacent
    to land, forming gaps: it is a pole-to-pole
    dashed line. Ships are required to adopt
    the standard time of a country when they
    are within its territorial waters, but must
    revert to international time zones (15°
    wide pole-to-pole gores) as soon as they
    leave territorial waters. The 15° gore that
    is offset from GMT or UT1 (not UTC) by
    twelve hours is bisected by the nautical
    date line into two 7.5° gores that differ
    from GMT by ±12 hours.

    In reality nautical time zones are used only


    for radio communication etc. Internally on
    the ship, e.g. for work and meal hours, the
    ship may use a suitable time of its own
    choosing. This includes fixed installations
    such as oil rigs. For example, the
    Norwegian Ekofisk oil rigs are located in
    international water at longitude 3°E but
    use Norwegian time.

    See also
    Marine chronometer

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