On 3/4/12 8:32 AM, unruh wrote [in part]: > On 2012-03-04, John Hasler <[email protected]> wrote [also in part]: >> >> Just as tzdata allows conversions between UTC and your local zone. Thus >> UTC is the Earth planetary zone as CST is my local zone within that >> planetary zone. While it is convenient to have solar noon occur at the >> same time every day the planet is not a clock. > > Well, actually it is a clock, and a pretty damn good one and for a long > long time the only one anyone had. It is only > in the past half century that our other clocks have achieved a better > accuracy.
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