On Tue 2005-01-25T09:57:46 +, Clive D.W. Feather hath writ:
> I think you're out by a factor of 10. Would the Man On The Clapham Omnibus
> be able to identify the solstice or equinox to within 14 days? Other than
> knowing the "conventional" dates?
>
> [That is, if the equinox was actually on M
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Clive D.W. Feather" writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp said:
>>> [That is, if the equinox was actually on March 9th, would anyone outside
>>> the astronomical community notice?]
>>
>> I doubt it.
>>
>> I'm not so certain about the summer and winter solstice however.
>> here
Poul-Henning Kamp said:
>> [That is, if the equinox was actually on March 9th, would anyone outside
>> the astronomical community notice?]
>
> I doubt it.
>
> I'm not so certain about the summer and winter solstice however.
> here in the nordic countries were're quite emotionally attached to
> thos
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Clive D.W. Feather" writes:
>Tom Van Baak said:
>> It seems to me the popular understanding of a year
>> is accurate to +/-1 day.
>
>I think you're out by a factor of 10. Would the Man On The Clapham Omnibus
>be able to identify the solstice or equinox to within 14
Tom Van Baak said:
> It seems to me the popular understanding of a year
> is accurate to +/-1 day.
I think you're out by a factor of 10. Would the Man On The Clapham Omnibus
be able to identify the solstice or equinox to within 14 days? Other than
knowing the "conventional" dates?
[That is, if th
Tom Van Baak scripsit:
> Another observation is that our local newspaper always
> prints Sun and Moon rise and set times. But not time
> of noon. Why is this? Maybe it's just our paper (noon
> implies sun and we don't see much of it here in Seattle).
Some people need to know sunset for religious
Steve Allen scripsit:
> What we are being told by the Time Lords is that, starting from a date
> in the near future, knowing when noon is will also be a specialist
> operation.
Already true.
For many months of the year, solar noon is closer to 1 PM, or even 1:30
PM, in a great many countries, an
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Allen writes:
>On Mon 2005-01-24T00:50:10 -0800, Tom Van Baak hath writ:
>> Isn't knowing when noon is already a specialist operation?
>> I mean, most people could tell you when noon is to within
>> an hour or two or three, but finer than that requires a far
>>
On Mon 2005-01-24T00:50:10 -0800, Tom Van Baak hath writ:
> Isn't knowing when noon is already a specialist operation?
> I mean, most people could tell you when noon is to within
> an hour or two or three, but finer than that requires a far
> amount of daily mental calculation, no?
Noon has long r
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Van Baak writes:
>Another observation is that our local newspaper always
>prints Sun and Moon rise and set times. But not time
>of noon. Why is this? Maybe it's just our paper (noon
>implies sun and we don't see much of it here in Seattle).
>
>Why is the instant
Steve Allen wrote on 2005-01-24 06:09 UTC:
> But the current strategy of retaining the name UTC creates one real
> and unresolvable problem that will persist indefinitely. It is very
> bad policy to corrupt the historical meaning of anything called
> "Universal Time" by redefining UTC to be someth
Steve,
Some comments on your fine posting...
> But Essen claims for himself (in both this autobiography
> and in Metrologia
I found the Metrologia article interesting. I had heard
of 100 ms steps (leap tenth-seconds) but not the 50
ms steps.
Did you notice he appears to refer to a leap second
w
On Thu 2005-01-20T14:59:18 -0700, Rob Seaman hath writ:
> Leap seconds are a perfectly workable mechanism. Systems
> that don't need time-of-day should use TAI. Systems that do need
> time-of-day often benefit from the 0.9s approximation to UT1 that UTC
> currently provides. Let's stop pretendin
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