Rob Seaman scripsit:
> The Sun matters. Wishing it were not so doesn't change the fact.
> Simply assuming that no safety critical system anywhere on the planet
> could possibly, even in our wildest Spielbergian imaginations, ever
> depend on the long established notion of Mean Solar Time that
> permeates our civilization - simply assuming this does not remove the
> economic, legal and moral imperatives to investigate these
> possibilities before unilaterally changing a 120 year-old
> international standard.
Where on earth do these systems get mean solar time? That requires
solar observations plus the current equation of time.
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