Dear Jürgen and Kurt,

Thank you both very much for your explanations:

   WOZ =A6 Wahre Ortszeit =3D LAT =A6 Local Apparent Time

   MOZ =A6 Mittlere Ortszeit =3D LMT =A6 Local Mean Time

My memory must be fading=21  I had forgotten Ortszeit and,
now, I remember that Reinhold Kriegler explained Ortszeit
to me several years ago=21

This list needs a third time...

What do you say if a sundial allows for a longitude
offset from the reference meridian of your time zone?

What is the name of the time on a sundial which shows
Wahre Ortszeit at 15 degrees East (the most important
reference meridian in Europe)?

There is no agreement about this in England.  Here the
Greenwich Meridian is our reference.  We could say
Greenwich Apparent Time, GAT, but I have never seen
this.  It would be GAST in summer :-)

We could say Greenwich Solar Time but that would make
GST which would be ambiguous: GST means Greenwich
Sidereal Time so it would be a bad name=21

I can see an ambiguity with WOZ because I think WOZ
can also mean Weiter Osteurop=E4ische Zeit.  You can
read about it here:

  https://de.qwertyu.wiki/wiki/Further-eastern_European_Time

This is a very curious time :-)

Very best wishes
Frank



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