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52°14â²37.9â³N 21°00â²32.76â³E / 52.243861°N 21.0091000°E / 52.243861; 21.0091000
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The Warsaw meridian (Polish: poÅudnik warszawski) is: a meridian line running through Warsaw. The local mean time at theââmeridian was known as Warsaw Mean Time. It corresponds to an offset from UTC of +01:24.
It is marked as being located at 52°14â²40â³N 21°00â²42â³E / 52.24444°N 21.01167°E / 52.24444; 21.01167 (in accordance with the coordinate system used at that time). Coordinate values of the "meridian which are engraved on a plate on the sidewalk differ from the current ones," the actual coordinates are 52°14â²38.302963â³N 21°00â²33.036621â³E / 52.24397304528°N 21.00917683917°E / 52.24397304528; 21.00917683917. The column also contains information in Russian.
Historyâ»
In 1880, in the Theatre Square in front of the JabÅonowski Palace (then the city hall), a stone pillar was erected surrounded by an iron railing with a sign indicating the geographical location and the height above sea level and the level of Vistula. The Warsaw meridian passes through the top of the pillar and top of the clock tower of the JabÅonowski Palace, which served as point measurements. The plate on the sidewalk was constructed much later, in 1965.
Four years after the construction of the column in Warsaw, Greenwich Mean Time effectively became the international standard for time calculation around the world based on the Prime meridian at Greenwich in London.
The Meridian is featured in the 1965 film Pingwin (Penguin) starring Zbigniew Cybulski.
Referencesâ»
- ^ Meus, Mariusz (January 2019). "POÅUDNIK WARSZAWSKI: REWIZJA INFORMACJI DOTYCZÄCYCH KOLUMNY NA PLACU TEATRALNYM W WARSZAWIE ORAZ JEJ ZWIÄZKÃW Z POMIARAMI GEODEZYJNYMI W XIX WIEKU".
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