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The 14 pages that link to Greenwich Mean Time, each with the reason it gives.

• Marine chronometerRelated: A ship compared its chronometer’s Greenwich time with local solar time.

• International Date LineRelated: Longitude-based timekeeping anchored at Greenwich helps explain why the date boundary lies near the opposite meridian.

• Time zoneRelated: It became the reference from which many early zone offsets were measured.

• Pendulum clockRelated: Accurate observatory clocks helped establish and distribute standard time.

• Solar timeRelated: It exemplifies a standardized time anchored to mean solar time at one longitude.

• Universal TimeRelated: Universal Time developed from the astronomical timekeeping tradition associated with Greenwich.

• Nautical almanacRelated: Almanac predictions are indexed to a common reference time, which observations must match.

• Prime meridianRelated: The Greenwich longitude reference helped connect global timekeeping to a shared meridian.

• Lunar distance methodRelated: The matching almanac entry yields Greenwich time, which determines longitude.

• Railway timeRelated: British railways adopted it in place of varying local times.

• History of measurementRelated: Railways and navigation turned local timekeeping into a problem of shared standards.

• History of timekeeping devicesRelated: Reliable clocks supported the adoption of Greenwich as a reference meridian.