Did you know that there is a secret meridian running along the Louvre Museum in Paris?

If you’ve visited the Louvre museum in Paris, you’ve probably had the guide show you a ‘prime meridian.’ But the Greenwich Meridian Time isn’t at all close to this one.

Greenwich is a village with an Observatory next to the city of London. Atop a small hillock sits a red ball that falls down at 1:00pm every day since 1833 to indicate time. This is called as a time ball. Alongside this observatory is a brass line that passes. And this is the Greenwich meridian time.

In Washington DC, the US President Arthur and other 41 delegates from 25 nations met and voted the Greenwich Meridian to be the Prime Meridian owing to its familiarity however, France was against such a decision. The french maps continued to show the Paris meridian as the official meridian. Finally in 1911, France accepted to acknowledge the GMT as the Prime Meridian.