Where did the new Millennium start and why?
The new Millennium officially started at the Prime Meridian measured from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. At the 1884 International Meridian Conference, a resolution was agreed which established the formulation of a ‘universal day’ calculated in terms of mean solar time, i.e. the average of a year’s worth of days. This is a scientific time scale used irrespective of time zones. The universal day is measured from the Prime Meridian in Greenwich, which is therefore the point from whence each new millennium will begin.
