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   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   J. P. Gilliver wrote on 20/11/23 9:07 pm:   
   > 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   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >>>> 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.   
      
   GMT used in Communications cycles as well ..... and renamed to Zulu for   
   Military Communications as well!!   
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   Daniel   
      
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