Paris Observatory
About Paris Observatory
The Paris Observatory, a research institution of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University, is the foremost astronomical observatory of France, one of the largest astronomical centres in the world, and the world’s oldest observatory still in operation. Its historic building is on the Left Bank of the Seine in central Paris, but most of the staff work on a satellite campus in Meudon, a suburb southwest of Paris.
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Paris Observatory was the other big contender for where official time would rest — it ended up being Greenwich. They defined Greenwich time as Paris time minus two and a half minutes, and until about the 1990s they really dug their heels in on Greenwich time.
from 432: No Such Thing As Sexygesimal Time, 2022-06-24 at 00:29:42 · read transcript
Other times Paris Observatory came up
Or it was the first one founded and it was pioneered by a man called Ernest Esclan-Glangen in 1933 who was a French astronomer and I think was at the sort of official you know the government He was the director of the Paris Observatory Oh there we go okay yeah and people kept ringing up to ask the time because that was one of the ways Before speaking glocks existed you verify the absolute nailed on time was You phoned an astronomer And his.
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