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Default Laboring under misconceptions.

I'll take that as a 'no'.

SBV


"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in

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