Rob Seaman scripsit: > I wouldn't call this an oddity, but rather an interesting and > elegant, one might even say charming, local custom. The logic of > this accommodation between 6:-00 pm clock time and a mean sunset > demonstrates another weakness in the ALHP, since clock time would > drift secularly against mean solar time.
Only if Israel never changes its time zone. I found another spectacular illustration of how massive the difference between solar and legal time can be. Before 1845, the time in Manila, the Philippines, was the same as Acapulco, Mexico, a discrepancy of 9h16m from Manila solar time. This was a consequence of the Philippines having been colonized and administered from Spanish America. Nowadays the standard time of Acapulco is UTC-6; of Manila, UTC+8. Q: "What happened in the Philippines on December 31, 1844?" A: "Nothing. It never existed." -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ccil.org/~cowan If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. --Hal Abelson
