"Scotty" w@u wrote in message
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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in
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Wrong! Time has nothing to do with it. Boy are some people
thick!


So you can take a noon sighting at 1800?


Think about what you just wrote. I know you're just being your normal
joker self but think about something for once in your life. Ask yourself
how many miles wide a time zone is at the Equator. Given points on the
same parallel of latitude, local noon in this wide zone differs from one
place (longitude) to another even though everybody's clock is the same.

Local noon is a function of the max height of the sun over a particular
GP. The time of local noon has nothing whatsoever to do with the
Meridians of Longitudes which are fixed imaginary lines on the face of
the Earth. Rather local none tells you your GP as referenced to the
fixed grid of lat/lon.


Wilbur Hubbard