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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   John Hall wrote on 20/11/23 8:38 am:   
   > In message , Bob F   
   >  writes   
      
      
      
   >> 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??   
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   Daniel   
      
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