The International Meridian Conference was a conference held in October 1884 in Washington, D.C., in the United States to determine a prime meridian for international use. The conference was held at the request of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur. The subject to discuss was the choice of "a meridian to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning throughout the world" (Proceedings of the 1884 International Meridian Conference, page 7). It resulted in selection of the Greenwich Meridian as an international standard for zero degrees longitude.
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