At 20:17 -0600 2009/01/04, Don Guinn wrote: > >Maybe we ought to go to syderial time and forget it. >
That reminds me of a amusing story worth telling - years ago (ca 1980) in the Palo Alto IPSA office, we kept a table top clock set to GMT (since that was the time the APL service in Toronto kept). Albert Bradley, a summer employee, one day turned the clock onto its left side. When asked why, he replied, "Now it shows sidereal time!" He went on to explain that the time offset to UTC was _9 hours and so it worked out nicely. We were all amused and left the clock on its side. ~~~ BTW, I believe "sidereal" is the correct spelling for the astronomical time... Etymology of sidereal is from Latin "sidereus" from sidus, sider- = star. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
