Seeds, Glen scripsit:
> The answer to your question is easy: it's only the apparent sun that matters
> for UT. The rationale here is that we're looking for a time base that's
> maximally useful to most people in the planet, for most of what they do. The
> core of the definition of UT seems to satisfy this.
AFAIU, UT is based on mean time, not apparent time. And anyway, LCT
in Urumchi is about 10^4 s away from LMT *or* LAT. When we swallow the
10^4 s camel, are we really going to worry about the 1 s mote?
(Do I have enough acronyms yet?)
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Received on Fri Jan 30 2004 - 07:42:30 PST