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   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   In message  at Mon, 20 Nov 2023 20:40:52,   
   Daniel65  writes   
   >John Hall wrote on 20/11/23 8:38 am:   
   >> In message , Bob F   
   >> writes   
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   >   
   >>> So how is that affected by daylight savings time?   
   >>  Not art all, since we are dealing with time as shown on the clock.   
   >>Even when daylight savings time isn't in force, noon on the clock   
   >>rarely precisely corresponds to when the sun is due south.   
   >   
   >Bloody Hell!! I'd be in real trouble if the sun were anything like 'due   
   >south' at Noon!! ;-P   
   >   
   >> And of course if you went by "sun time", places on different   
   >> longitudes that are currently within the same time zone would be   
   >> setting their clocks to different times, as happened prior to the   
   >> middle of the 19th century.   
   >   
   >And, going the other way, isn't all of Russia (and, possibly, all of PR   
   >of China) all on one Time setting??   
      
   I could see justification for the whole planet to use the same clock;   
   it'll never happen, though, as for any one suggestion, there will be far   
   more people/places/whatever who would have to change than not. To a   
   small extent, GMT (or UCT I think) _is_ that, and is used in scientific   
   circles.   
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