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1959 - Nerve center of time: Greenwich Mean Time has been the basis for the world's time since 1884. The Royal Observatory, founded in 1675, is no longer at Greenwich; it is now, to avoid London's industrial haze, in the clear country air of Herstmonceux, Sussex, but it still has to keep Greenwich Mean Time. Photo shows the nerve center of Greenwich Mean Time, the Times Department Control Room at Herstmonceux. On the left signals from oversea countries are being received and measured against Greenwich Time. On the right comparisons are being made between the signals received from standard quartz clocks, said to provide the most short-term time keeping yet devised

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1675 Avoid Basis Clear Clocks Comparisons Devised Greenwich Haze Herstmonceux Keeping Longer Mean Measured Nerve Observatory Oversea Provide Quartz Short-term Signals

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