Jc3s5h added a comment.

In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99674#1311475, @Rical wrote:

> To convert geographic position to a time more accurate than a day we must 
> conform to the rules of each country.
>  Rare are the countries which use solar time as local time. Now mainly 
> Pacific Ocean islands near the line of date change for touristic reasons. 
> There is no reason to add an automatic precision if there is no official 
> solar local time, or special mention of an hour or more accurate.


Today the use of local solar time for civic affairs is rare to non-existent. 
But before 1880 everyone did this.

Also, it is common for the date to be recorded, and presumably accurate, since 
even people without clocks can count days. But the 24 hour span in local time 
must be converted to Universal Time to avoid a loss of accuracy; otherwise 24 
hour uncertainty becomes approximately 48 hour uncertainty.


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