[LEAPSECS] Schedule for success

[Tony Finch]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Rob Seaman wrote:

>

> 	No.  We have been using mean solar time formally since the 19th

> century, and informally since we woke each morning to light shining through

> the entrance of the cave.


Apparent solar time is not mean solar time. Remember that for a lot of
history we used rubber hours that varied according to the time between
sunrise and sunset. Mean solar time cannot be established without
reasonably accurate clocks.

Tony.
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