[LEAPSECS] future access to solar time?

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Tony Finch said:
> Well, no, not for more than half the year. I happen to be close to the
> Greenwich meridian so my clocks currently show something close to mean
> solar time (about 30 seconds fast, I think?) but that isn't true for most
> people.

Indeed.

I live 1 minute 37 seconds east of the prime meridian - I'm probably
closest to it of anyone on this list.

> The clock on the wall tells the time for social
> purposes, not for the position of the sun in the sky.

Right. And that's without the equation of time coming into the, um,
equation.

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