On Thu 2006-01-05T08:18:11 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp hath echoed Rob:
Which is why the longitude conference decided on a 1 hour quantum.
No, they did not.
The delegates gratuitously offered existing schemes (the US railroads
being one touted long and hard by some guy named Allen) along with
Rob Seaman wrote:
I said:
all parties must certainly agree that civil time (as we know it) IS
mean solar time.
Ed says:
saying that it IS civil time is probably a bit strong.
Probably a bit strong is not precisely a staunch denial.
It's not meant to be a staunch denial. I'm mostly
Rob Seaman said:
Rather, the often repeated canard that civilians don't give a fig for
the actual position of the sun in the sky implies that it is
precisely apparent solar time that only queer ducks like astronomers
care about. Mean solar time is what civilians DO care about.
Only *very*
Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
Rob Seaman said:
Rather, the often repeated canard that civilians don't give a fig for
the actual position of the sun in the sky implies that it is
precisely apparent solar time that only queer ducks like astronomers
care about. Mean solar time is what civilians DO
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Seaman writes:
I said:
all parties must certainly agree that civil time (as we know it) IS
mean solar time.
Ed says:
saying that it IS civil time is probably a bit strong.
Probably a bit strong is not precisely a staunch denial.
[...]
This is simply a
