On Sep 20, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Gerard Ashton wrote: > On 9/20/2011 11:24 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message<[email protected]>, Gerard Ashton writes: >>> On 9/20/2011 5:53 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>> Earth orientation is one factor in the time of sunrise and sunset, and >>> that is important >>> at perhaps minute precision for many purposes, such as avoiding >>> violation of laws >>> regarding turning on automobile headlights, and the taking of game. >> Show one single court-case, where the exact time of sunrise or >> sunset has been a crucial factor, with a precision better than three >> minutes, and I'll belive you. >> > I have no way to document the hunters who refrained from taking a deer one > minute after > what the hunter believed to be the legal hunting hours expired.
The hunters in the US that I know that deal with sunrise/sunset laws deal with it by going "Yup, I could still see, sun must have been up." or "No, it was starting to get a little dark." I don't know anybody that's out in the back country with sunrise/sunset tables and a watch that's accurate to more than 5 minutes unless they are using one of these new-fangled GPS receivers. Then again the laws about hunting in the US that I'm familiar with tend to be dusk/dawn laws not sunrise/sunset laws. Mostly because sunset is hard to observe in the bottom of a valley with irregular mountains all around, but dusk is easier to know (which likely explains the "heck, it ain't dark, I didn' t need a flashlight to see the deer well enough to shoot it" attitude). Warner _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
