On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Rob Seaman wrote:
>
> Once more from the top, mean solar time is just sidereal time offset by a
> little bit to make up for the Earth lapping the Sun once a year.  Nowhere does
> humanity appear in the equation, just the Earth and Sun and Stars.

No, since an oscillator without a counter is not a clock.

Tony.
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FAIR ISLE FAEROES: WESTERLY OR NORTHWESTERLY 4 OR 5, INCREASING 6 OR 7 FOR A
TIME. MODERATE OR ROUGH. RAIN OR SHOWERS, OCCASIONAL SNOW LATER IN NORTH.
MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY VERY POOR LATER.
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