Fran if you come to London and go to Grenwich you can stand with one foot in the Eastern hemisphere and one foot in the Western hemisphere as you stand over the physical line zero marker,

@paulmidsussex3409

11 күн бұрын

You can do that in Lewes as well.

We invented the chronometer the only safe way to navigate oceans before this by about one hundred years before this movement began?

@PaulForeman-indievisuals

11 күн бұрын

Not to mention inventing the Train too 😂

@nedeast6845

9 күн бұрын

very good point, i wish others could make it....Harrison's chronometer basically revolutionised charts and sea voyages, but that is probably too much for this crowd

@johnleonard9090

5 күн бұрын

@@nedeast6845the H4, it was originally built so ships captains could transfer the time from the main chronometer up onto the deck then it proved to be more accurate than the main chronometer.

Al Murray explains it way better

Britian built trains all throughout africa and india. Basically anywhere the british wanted to trade they would at great expense build railways and train infrastructure. Britian ruled the world back then they had the main debt and banking systems, people had to trade with britian really. Also the royal observatory in england was one of the best in the world at the time.

@sywilson73

11 күн бұрын

cheers mate ..saved me some typing lol.

The Greenwich Meridian was used by the Royal Navy who mapped most of the world's seas and oceans. The British also dominated the maritime trade, which also used those maps. There is a competing Paris meridian which they still push occasionally.

He made a mistake, The North and South poles are 90° from the equator. 180° would be at the equator on the other side of the world.

Why Greenwich. Because of the Royal Observatory which did a very accurate sky survey. This meant that if you knew where you were then you could tell the time. But much more useful if you knew the time (Accurately) with the aid of comparing what you could see to the Star Tables you could tell where you were. A big help to avoid sailing into rocks or continents, which happened as recently as the 1920s (see the Honda Point Incident)!

i think when the Uk invented the steam train it might have had a bit to do with it.🤣In 1803, Trevithick invented the first steam railway engine which could run on its own purpose-built tracks. On 27 September 1825, the Locomotion 1 train invented by George Stephenson (1781-1848) transported the first railway passengers from Stockton to Darlington in the northeast of England.

@CountScarlioni

11 күн бұрын

Amazingly the growing passenger rail network ran without a coordinated time system for a decade. It was the Great Western who in 1840 first standardised on what was termed "Railway Time" for the clocks and timetables across their system. By 1847 Railway Time was used across the nation and pegged on Greenwich Mean Time (which did actually exist back then, but was essentially the name of the solar measurements taken at the observatory and used as the official time for London). Railway Time wasn't an immediate hit in the UK, and it took many years to persuade various towns to actually adopt it. There was something of a NIMBY backlash furious at the idea of these uppity railwaymen dictating to folk what the proper time was!

@PeterDay81

10 күн бұрын

@@CountScarlioni Too true.

I think the French lost because if Paris had won it would have been called PMT and that would have worried all men in the world when they could speak without that look.

the British are the ones who invented the most accurate clocks that kept the time best this is why its GMT

You nod your head but you have no clue. Greenwich was picked because we were the centre of the world for everything at the time. Naval, invention, exploration, industry, and empire. There simply was no other choice, yet today others can clame those titles all be it too late. Turns out history can still hold truths and remain factual.

Please somebody tell the Americans that it is daylight saving, not savings. We are saving daylight. Savings is money you have in the bank for a rainy day.

@WookieWarriorz

11 күн бұрын

americans do this constantly, ever hear them talk about 'offsides' in football. Just one side mate, you cant be 'off' your own 'side'

@tradeladder146

11 күн бұрын

Like its Maths, not Math.

@AlwaysRightAllNight

11 күн бұрын

The one time they don't add the 's' and they are wrong ​@@tradeladder146

@gmdhargreaves

11 күн бұрын

Internet service providings

If you look at the map you will see that God had a special regard for Britain, as he put it at the centre of the world with all the other countries grouped around it like planets around the sun.

@Oxley016

3 күн бұрын

God is British, that’s why we don’t get earthquakes and all that kind of thing. After all you font shit in your own doorstep!

UK proved Longitude which after Latitudes was decided already was vital to travel and discovery. You need to thank Captain James Cook who navigated Australia New Zealand and Tasmania by observing the transition of the Planet Venus across the sky, proving Longitude. So it was obvious Britain is the centre of World time and it was called Grenwich MeanTime was born = GMT. To save the Worlds humiliations it has now been called UT = Universal Time!

here a little thing about this time line and the date line, its two fold, before maybe before your time. i will explain it the best i can, and you will see how it worked in favour of the biggest event in the world, please read to the end, it might make sense. back in 1985, the world had the biggest concert, Live Aid, with the UK, america and australia, and some smaller countries chipping in it was a 16 to 18 hour live concert it started in the UK lest say 6pm, for america that was midday, for australia its 6 in the morning so england started at 6pm, and when that finished late evening, america had caught up and was now 6pm and australia was now midday, america did their concertt, which on the time line australia had caught up to 6pm, so in effect, every live show started at 6pm there was another bonus with the time line, phil collins played in england siging in the air tonight, after his set, he jumped on a plane, to america, he is now flying against the time zone slowing it down due to his travel, and he played the same song in america during their section of the live show thats why when you fly one way its longer, and when your return the hours are shorter, because of the time zones

It wasn't just some random thing that Greenwich was chosen. Britain developed the chronometer and the concept of Longitude in navigation which required the chronometer. It surveyed and produced most of the worlds most accurate charts at that time. it would have been totally random and illogical not to choose Greenwich.

Other reasons: The marine chronometer, an accurate time piece that worked at sea. It gave you a reference for astronomical charts so you could accurately plot your longitude. Because it was invented in Britain it meant the British could produce the most accurate charts & they used Greenwich as the datum. The world's principle insurer was Lloyds of London. Writing insurance policies requires a time when the cover commences & lapses.

May I introduce you to another British invention? The unexpressed thought. I'm having several right now.

@petevan8942

8 күн бұрын

😂 exactly...I found it irritating too

Centre of the world.

The British Empire ran off of Greenwhich mean time for the railways. So the world would have to fit around. It was also the centre of navigation maps.

Because we drew the lines.

The thing is, in 1884 we had made our maps, everyone else has made maps but they probably got it wrong, so were going to have to change their maps anyway when they realised they screwed up the coastline of a distant continent.

England. Greenwich to be precise.

check out the history of the harrison clocks.

@philipamos4333

11 күн бұрын

How could you make a video like this without mentioning Harrison?

The reason Greenwich was chosen was because it had a very accurate fix telescope pointing exactly south. This meat they could accurately time the passage of stars across the vertical cross hair of the telescope and so time the rotation of the Earth very accurately; and it was the vertical cross hair of this telescope that was defined as Zero Longitude.

GMT came about in the 17th century by John Flamsteed who was the Royal Astronomer and adopted for naval use by the 18th century. With the coming of the railways in the early 19th century Britain needed a standardized time for timetables and by 1846 the GMT began to be adopted rapidly. This already standardized system across Britain and the empire was a strong contender for the world system by the 1880s when the conference was called as it was well established already.

Everyone who has seen the film Die Hard with a Vengeance knows who Chester A. Arthur is. And the only reason why they have heard of him 😁

thank you

While cruising around Cape Horn most of the passengers were quite excited to stop in Ushuaia the most southerly town and port in the world. However, not so me, as I live in Dundee, Scotland which is 57° North while Ushuaia is only 56° South

Greetings from my yacht. Latitude 50 degrees, 46 minutes, 37 seconds North (of the equator), Longitude 0 degrees, 0 minutes, 10 seconds West (of the Greenwich meridian) = just off the South coast of England, 0.16 miles West of Peacehaven, where the prime meridian crosses the coast. There is a monument on the cliffs marking the meridian. Timezones don't just follow the straight North-South lines of Latitude because of politics. DIfferent countries wanted to keep one zone instead of being split into two (or more). France sulked about being behind Germany, so just added an extra hour, etc.

I am from England, London, my great grandfather lived in Greenwich, as if i give a spent piss where the time is recorded

@brucemitchell1077

9 күн бұрын

I have a friend who lived in Greenwich but he was in the prison

the 180 and 180 as you will know, 180 x 180 = 360 which is deemed to be the the world, 360 degree, so going 180 left then 180 right, you would meet at the back, 360 degrees if you did that, you would go round the world and end up where you started, great video again, love this channel and content

@Venezuelan_Girl

11 күн бұрын

thank you!

@idristaylor5093

11 күн бұрын

180 x 180 = 32,400, you mean 180 + 180 = 360

This is a great video but why does it matter to me, that he said Greenwich is an out skirts town of London. Greenwich is very much part of London. It's not an outskirts town it's a borough of London famous for the 02. It's just outside Central London because Greenwich is South London but it's not a town on the outskirts. Loool

The germans dont sit down to lunch, until we say its so😉

If you watch the film 'Around The World In 80 Days' I'm sure it explains about losing a day/gaining a day depending on travelling east or west

THE INTERESTING thing is going L.A. USA from Sydney You arrive in LA before you left Sydney but coming home you almost lose a day.

@Venezuelan_Girl

2 күн бұрын

🤔

Not just because we had a great navel fleet and reigned supream in Europe it was for trains timetables and we invested trains and railways

@BP-kx2ig

11 күн бұрын

Maybe naval and supreme?

@BP-kx2ig

11 күн бұрын

And invented?

@BP-kx2ig

11 күн бұрын

Why are things ‘crazy’.

@martins24455

11 күн бұрын

@@BP-kx2ig we was 1815 when we beat Napoleon in French revolution that's was the start of trying to abolish the slave trade we used our empire and world power so yeah I class that as supreme leaders of Europe. We brought the civised world democracy, freedom of speech, law , order infrastructure, medicine, anti biotic,s , vaccines we made the world a better place . The places we went mostly are doing well the places we did,nt not so well most are poor and 3rd world countries. Why is everything so crazy it,s all part of the bigger plan destroying everything we had done and achieved. Our country , sovereignty, our culture, history and everything we are and stand for we get blamed for colonisation and slavery even though has been since beginning of time .the younger generation don't know about what we have done for the world about us ending slavery for the world the cost our wealth our empire people think we got rich from slavery when we achieved through open trade and industrial revolution and we spent more buying everyone's freedom than we ever made from slave trade kids don't even know about the importance and significance of d day .

@martins24455

11 күн бұрын

@@BP-kx2ig where there is chaos there's opportunity

The Brits were leading the way in this time, and so London became '0' in this time zone.

When you think about it if we didn't have a central time nothing would work...flights, tourism, exploration, work timetables/schedules/rotas...ok the last one kinda stings a bit lol x

There was a spot on the Millennium, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, that was a century, millennium, north and south, midday and midnight. I wanted to sail there but I spent it in PLC, Venezuela after the landslide.

Chester A. Arthur, is the answer to the riddle, “What is 21 out of 42?”, in Die Hard with a Vengeance!

This is Primary School Geography. We learned all this and more for the reasons between the ages of 7 and 11 years. Now Adults are Pondering the obvious Please excuse our Mirth-something sadly lacking in the US Education " system"

Well done Fran, my brain aches.

@Venezuelan_Girl

7 күн бұрын

lol

it's difficult to work out who speaks most,the presenter of the video or the lady reacting to it. she never stops.

@Venezuelan_Girl

4 күн бұрын

🤐

2 birthdays, 2 NYEs if you were born on the west and were taken to the east for registration would you be -1 days old? That’s dead

Love the videos! Another interesting question about maps would be why do we put the north pole at the top and the south pole at the bottom? We could have turned the whole thing upside down and it would be just as accurate 😄

Although the Spanish decided to be included in Germany's time zone because they liked Hitler.

@paulmidsussex3409

11 күн бұрын

It is also rather convenient to have all those trains running on time.

Watch Map Men, they are two Brits who are a lot more entertaining.

28th May is my Birthday too. But please don't send gifts anyone. 😊

GMT = UTC, GMT+1 = BST (BRITISH SUMMER TIME), which also translates to BST = UTC+1. The International Date line needed to be set somewhere, is it not logical to set it somewhere in the middle of a ocean. Imagine the date line down the center of the American continent, this would mean the East coast is 24 hours behind the West coast, whats crazier, middle of ocean or middle of a populated land mass. Get real girl.

As a common south London boy...living a couple miles west of the meridian in Croydon...we locals say "Grin-itch" or "Grin-idge"...not "Gre'n-it'ch"...Only very posh, snooty people pronounce it like that American bloke/geezer in the video. Just saying. Time for lunch? 12.38 G.M.T.!!!

Greenwich meantime.......

more to do with john harrison and longitude HS4

You're a star seed aren't you

And a chatterbox😅

Really.......

Seen a few reactions to this American content creator and he ALWAYS glosses over Britain's input to the subject in hand. No mention that Britain invented the train and so had thd first timetables and ran them off GMT. Or that the British invented the chronometer that finally solved the age old problem of measuring longitude accurately at sea. No, as far as he's concerned an American president should take all the credit. What a toxxpot.

White duds ? And what’s wrong with that .

All political maps haver their country in the centre of the map

Hi I enjoyed watching a video but you keep talking over the top of the person talking on the video

Do the Portuguese talk over people's conversation like the Spanish. Please pause the video and then say your bit. It's very rude to talk over people.

If you like the sound of your own voice so much why bother reacting to other peoples? Just talk aimlessly about anything. I'm sure some people will watch.

@Venezuelan_Girl

10 күн бұрын

you think i should react to my self? that would be original

Will you please 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫

Hi i have been watching and i like your reactions. However for me when i look at your videos there is a battle between you and the person talking on the video. Please can you lets us hear the video you are reacting too. Speaking over the people in your videos is i'm afraid annoying. Maybe you could stop the video and then make your comments? Of course they are your videos and you can do what you like. Many thanks Tom

@Venezuelan_Girl

11 күн бұрын

Thanks for the feedback. Soon.

@tradeladder146

11 күн бұрын

She has been told that A 100 Times. 😀😀

Please please can you try to stop talking while the commentator is talking and explaining as both voices combine and it's just a mess , by all means stop the video and tell us what you know ( showing off 😂 ) or just ask a question .

I wish she would stop talking.

Please stop talking while hes talking.. at least pause it first. but not too much.

This guy is TOO boring. I cannot continue to watch.

Please try not to talk over the narrators on the videos you react too. Thankyou, like your channel otherwise.

@Venezuelan_Girl

11 күн бұрын

i will try

@tradeladder146

11 күн бұрын

@@Venezuelan_Girl No you wont. 😀😀

@CountScarlioni

11 күн бұрын

The point of a reaction video is for the video watcher to react. If you just want them to sit silently and view it then it's just going to end up as a video review.

We invented trains and big boats!! Where'd you want it to be? Venezuela who invented nothing maybe...

@Venezuelan_Girl

11 күн бұрын

why rude?

@CountScarlioni

11 күн бұрын

Well, I for one can't imagine why anyone would get a negative impression about the British people with shining ambassadors like yourself.

@sywilson73

11 күн бұрын

@@Venezuelan_Girl As an Englishman may I offer my sincere apologies for that rudeness , I personally found your vid quite nice . Thank you

Its Because God lives in England.