Mr. Rutherfurd, Delegate of the United States. Mr. President, it has been represented to me that it may, perhaps, be found advantageous in different countries and different localities to use a time that would not be accurately described as local time. In one place the standard of time may be strictly local time; in another place it may be national time; in another place it may be railroad time.
In order to meet this condition of things, I propose to alter the phraseology of the original resolution in this way: by inserting the words "or other," so that it shall read "which shall not interfere with the use of local or other time where desirable."
Professor Adams, Delegate of Great Britain. May it not be better to put it in this way: "Which shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard time where desirable."
Mr. Rutherfurd, Delegate of the United States. I accept the amendment offered by the Delegate of Great Britain.
Mr. Jean Valera, Delegate of Spain. As I consider that both the amendment which was just rejected and the present proposition really signify the same thing, I shall vote for the proposition, as I before did for the amendment.
The President. The question is now upon the resolution, as modified. It will be read.
The resolution was then read, as follows:
"Resolved, That the Conference proposes the adoption of a universal day for all purposes for which it may be found convenient, and which shall not interfere with the use of local or other standard time where desirable."
The following States voted in the affirmative:
| Austria-Hungary, | Mexico, |
| Brazil, | Netherlands, |
| Chili, | Paraguay, |
| Colombia, | Russia, |
| Costa Rica, | Salvador, |
| France, | Spain, |
| Great Britain, | Sweden, |
| Guatemala, | Switzerland, |
| Hawaii, | Turkey, |
| Italy, | United States, |
| Japan, | Venezuela. |
| Liberia, |