Babbles from Britain: What Time is It?

It would seem that my posts have a recurring theme: time. As it stands, I have another other post lined up from my adventures and it also involves the notion of time, but I will get to that later. Particularly today, however, it seemed appropriate to discuss time because back in Canada the time fell back an hour. Meanwhile here in the UK, the time fell backward a week prior to Canada. However, why this is the way it is will remain a mystery to me. Now, over the last week it was brought to my attention that the time zones are all measured from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, which is just a short drive from where I live! While on my visit to the observatory, I learned that it was there that history has been made for hundreds of years as Greenwich was the hub for research on time... and the building that I stood in was the very same one from back in the day!

There are a few sights to see while at the observatory. The main one being the Prime Meridian. While it is rather plain when you are up close to it, you cannot help but think about how so many scientists had walked the very same ground so many years beforehand. Without the measurements and discoveries made there, I'm curious as to what our notions of time would be like today? The Prime Meridian is just a line in the ground, but it is there that you begin to measure east and west longitude. In other words, that line is literally GMT 0:00. It is from that very same line that when I turned and looked westward, I realized that it wasn't just miles that measured the distance to back home in Grafton, but it was also time. For me, this is a little more comforting to know because 5 hours in the time change is much more appealing than 3,500 miles.

Anyway, I won't ramble on too much about this because I have a feeling it will get very wordy and confusing to read and type. That said, I just wanted to post a few pictures and hammer some words out onto the keyboard to go along with them. The Royal Observatory was a very neat place to visit and should be on everyone's to do list!