On Thu 2011/02/10 13:56:22 -0000, Ian Batten wrote in a message to: Leap Second Discussion List <[email protected]>
>> Yes, it seems a likely response. The underlying assumption is >> that people expect the Sun to be roughly overhead at noon to >> within a tolerance of about an hour. > >I don't think that's quite true. For a start off, in large parts of >the world "overhead" simply means "at its zenith" which might be quite >low in the sky, I was being "poetic" your honour! DST fiddles only go to prove that people expect civil time to be tied to the Sun. Regards, Mark Calabretta _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
