* 1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

* the development and adoption of the e-Government Metadata Standard ( e-GMS ) based on the international Dublin Core model

For internal dating and time standards the polises use CST ( Coalition Standard Time ), measured in tau elapsed since the adoption of the system on January 1, 2065 ( UT ).

The MHP is just a part of a family of specifications, which all base on the Globally Executable MHP ( GEM )- Standard, which was defined to allow the worldwide adoption of MHP.

The Consortium ’ s primary purpose is to promote the development and adoption of the LXI Standard, an open, accessible standard identifying specifications and solutions relating to the functional test, measurement, and data acquisition industry.

Somali has been the national language of Somalia since 1972, gaining official status with standardization ( Standard Somali ) and the adoption of the Latin script, developed under orders of then president Siad Barre.

The Uniform Time Act of 1966,, was a United States federal law to " promote the adoption and observance of uniform time within the standard time zones " prescribed by the Standard Time Act of 1918.

Despite the advances in paper making and the identification of and concern around the brittle book problem, it took decades before the adoption of ANSI NISO Standard Z39. 48-1984-Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries in 1984.

Prior to the global adoption of Standard Time, numerous Prime Meridians were decreed by various countries where time was defined by local noon ( thereby, local meridian ).

Shure's adoption of the Military Standard Specification, and product redesigns intended to conserve raw materials essential to the war effort, positioned the company to fulfill the military's needs for specialized microphones.

In 1841, Joseph Whitworth created a design that, through its adoption by many British railroad companies, became a national standard for the United Kingdom called British Standard Whitworth.

This publication announces the adoption of the IDEF0 as a Federal Information Processing Standard ( FIPS ).

He also published Raum und Zeit in der gegenwärtigen Physik (" Space and Time in Modern Physics "), which extended his earlier results by applying Poincaré's geometric conventionalism to explain Einstein's adoption of a non-Euclidean geometry in the General Theory of Relativity.

May later stated, during an appearance on the BBC's Question Time, that she had " changed her mind " on gay adoption.

The March of Time newsreel series ended in 1951, when the widespread adoption of television and daily TV news shows made the newsreel format obsolete.

One of the most controversial measures Daniels successfully pushed through was the state adoption of Daylight Saving Time, which Daniels argued would save the state money on energy costs.

The adoption of a standard recognizable type for a long time, is probably because nature gives preference in survival of a type which has long be adopted by the climatic conditions, and also due to the general Greek belief that nature expresses itself in ideal forms that can be imagined and represented.

For instance, in 51, Agrippina ordered the execution of Britannicus ’ tutor Sosibius because he had confronted her and was outraged by Claudius ’ adoption of Nero and his choice of Nero as successor, instead of choosing his own son Britannicus.

In their Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, Vicki Ruíz and Virginia Sánchez report that demographic differences in the adoption of the term existed ; because of the prior vulgar connotations, it was more likely to be used by males than females, and as well, less likely to be used among those in a higher socioeconomic status.

XML adoption was helped because every XML document can be written in such a way that it is also an SGML document, and existing SGML users and software could switch to XML fairly easily.

It was the machine that made time-sharing common ; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, the most notable of which were MIT's AI Lab and Project MAC, Stanford's SAIL, Computer Center Corporation ( CCC ), and Carnegie Mellon University.

The use and adoption of the QWERTY keyboard is often viewed as one of the most important case studies in open standards because of the widespread, collective adoption and use of the product, particularly in the United States.

He could do this because he manufactured thermometers, using mercury ( which has a high coefficient of expansion ) for the first time and the quality of his production could provide a finer scale and greater reproducibility, leading to its general adoption.

This simple aim becomes complicated, however, because of concessions made by Unicode's designers in the hope of encouraging a more rapid adoption of Unicode.

Eleanor Roosevelt supported the adoption of the UDHR as a declaration rather than as a treaty, because she believed that it would have the same kind of influence on global society as the United States Declaration of Independence had within the United States.

He published a biography of Joseph Chamberlain, which treated the split with William Gladstone over Irish Home Rule in 1886 as the pivotal point of his career, rather than the adoption of tariff reform, and contained the famous line: " All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs ".

Apparently the adoption was arranged because the family feared Yigan would die without an heir.

During that time, their population increased dramatically because of the abundance of buffalo, an influx of Shoshone migrants, and the adoption of significant numbers of women and children taken captive from rival groups.

Especially because of its adoption in Microsoft products, it has become one of the most widely used typefaces in history.

An argument that aided the initial adoption of ladder logic was that a wide variety of engineers and technicians would be able to understand and use it without much additional training, because of the resemblance to familiar hardware systems.

Spherical stone shot were chosen because of cheapness ; forged iron, bronze and lead balls were tried, but the expense prevented their general adoption.

Charges are dismissed, and Fritz Boudreau tells Mel that he is not Mel's father, but only handled Mel's adoption because Mel's biological parents were indisposed.

One of the most notable effects of the adoption of the Charter was to greatly expand the scope of judicial review, because the Charter is more explicit with respect to the guarantee of rights and the role of judges in enforcing them than was the Bill of Rights.

This can happen when young children move, with or without their family ( because of immigration or international adoption ), to a new language environment.

Dennis Ritchie notes that the ability to rapidly modify roff ( because it was locally written software ) to provide special features needed by the Bell Labs Patent department was an important factor in leading to the adoption of UNIX by the Patent department to fill their word processing needs.

As the adoption of the term in America coincided with a fashion among teenage girls in the early 1920s for wearing unbuckled galoshes a widespread false etymology held that they were called " flappers " because they flapped when they walked, as they wore their overshoes or galoshes unfastened, showing that they defied convention in a manner similar to the 21st century fad for untied shoelaces.

The system clearly perpetuated side-valve engines in countries where the taxation system encouraged these engine designs, and delayed the adoption of ohv engines because the small cylinder diameter reduced the space available for overhead valves and the lengthy combustion chamber in any case reduced their potential for improving combustion efficiency.

In July 2008, a man in Staten Island, New York already known in the Nation as Black Cream Allah was denied a legal adoption of the name because a judge felt it was sacrilegious and sounded like the name of a hip hop record.

The suggestion exists that this Easter egg could be designed to encourage adoption of the Google Chrome browser because to view the actual effect, a modern browser is required.

The movement has been criticised by some ( both religious and non-religious ) who have objected to the adoption of the title " bright " because they believe it suggests that the individuals with a naturalistic worldview are more intelligent (" brighter ") than non-naturalists, such as philosophical skeptics or idealists, believers in the paranormal, philosophical theists or the religious.

Although the committee recommended increasing some rights given in PACS, it recommended maintaining prohibitions against marriage, adoption, and access to medically assisted reproduction for same-sex couples, arguing that these three issues were inseparable and that allowing them would contravene a number of articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which France is a signatory ( although many UN nations do grant some or all of these rights to same-sex couples ).