[time-nuts] Re: Brain Burp re Noon and the Sun!

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Thu Nov 23 00:18:18 UTC 2023


On Wed 2023-11-22T22:28:36-0000 Clive S Carver via time-nuts hath writ:
> I recently read in an internet article:-
>
> "Since solar time depends on the longitude, solar noon occurs at exactly the
> same moment in all locations that share your local meridian."
>
> Is that correct?

Yes, mostly.

> I thought that the Latitude of the locations also comes into this?

No, unless you are worried about polar motion at the level of centiseconds.

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