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              IND-IIA-F210-I22 · Item · 10-06-1905
              Part of Correspondences related to Signaling Time from the year 1904 to 1923

              This is a circular letter from A.G. Cardew, AG Secretary to Government, regarding adopting standard time for railways and telegraph offices. The standard time in India will be 5.30 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and 9 minutes ahead of Madras time. In Burma, it will be 6.30 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and 5 minutes and 23 seconds earlier than Rangoon time. The change will be introduced at midnight between June 30 and July 1, 1905.

              Cardew, Alexander
              IND-IIA-F200-I02 · Item · 28-04-1905
              Part of Correspondence regarding clocks of Kodaikanal Observatory

              This is a reply letter from Charles Michie Smith, the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories to Gilbert T. Walker, the meteorological reporter to the government of India regarding the inadequacy of a single clock and along with the letter is a proposal stating the details about the required clocks for the Madras Observatory.

              Walker, Gilbert T.
              IND-IIA-F210-I21 · Item · 10-06-1905
              Part of Correspondences related to Signaling Time from the year 1904 to 1923

              This is a letter from the Director of Kodaikanal and Madras Observatories to the Meteorological Reporter to the Government of India and the Director General of Indian Observatories regarding the new standard signalling time arrangement. The Government of Madras has also accepted the standard time for local signals.

              Smith, Charles Michie