RE: Time drift in amd64
OED:
Noon, n.
2. a. The time when the sun reaches the meridian; twelve o'clock in the
day; midday
:-)))))
Latchezar
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Dickopp [mailto:martin-deb@zero-based.org]
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 10:57 AM
> To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Time drift in amd64
>
> lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:24:30AM +0100, Martin Dickopp wrote:
> >> Both of you are joking, I take it. But just in case someone is
> >> tempted to take this suggestion serious: The sun position
> does *not*
> >> peak at 12:00 "winter time" or 13:00 summer time. The
> deviation can
> >> be an hour or more, and furthermore it changes every day.
> >
> > The sun does peak the same time every day,
>
> No. Look up what the "equation of time" is. I find the
> Wikipedia article
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time quite good.
>
> > The earth is pretty consistent in rotating at a steady speed.
>
> True, but during one day, the earth has also moved on its
> orbit around the sun. The earth's velocity on its orbit
> around the sun is not constant, but dependent on the time of year.
>
> > Otherwise sundials wouldn't work very well.
>
> They don't, unless they take the equation of time into account.
>
> Martin
>
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