[LEAPSECS] Cheating means more planning, not less

[Tony Finch]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Rob Seaman wrote:

>

> And I really will spare folks my other screed on civil timekeeping

> having nothing to do with local apparent solar time.  Since everybody

> seems to agree on this point, I'm not sure why it keeps coming up.


I don't agree. I think the sun in the sky is what people actually care
about, and the astronomical details are irrelevant for practical purposes.
Civil time needs to be within a couple of hours of local solar time. The
differences between mean solar time and apparent solar time are too small
to matter - in fact the variation of sunrise matters much more than the
variation of midday.

Tony.
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