Rob Seaman <[email protected]> wrote: > Warner Losh wrote: > > > It is only one possible definition, not the only one. That makes it a > > belief, not a mathematical identity. > > Alternate definition?
It used to be local apparent solar time. Then local mean solar time. Then standard mean solar time. Then standard time with daylight saving. The definition of civil time is evidently not fixed. I gather Saudi Arabia used apparent solar time for official purposes in the late 1980s. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ Fisher, German Bight: West or southwest, veering northwest for a time, 4 or 5, increasing 6 at times. Moderate or rough. Occasional rain later. Moderate or good. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
