Brewer's: Berlin Time

The new Berlin Observatory is 44' 14" east of Paris, and 53' 35" east of Greenwich. The Berlin day begins at noon, but our civil day begins the midnight preceding.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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