Ian Batten said:
> And people routinely live in places where solar time is several hours adrift 
> from civil time --- Brest, France for example is four degrees west of 
> Greenwich, yet in the summer is on UTC+2 --- so at noon civil time it is 0945 
> solar time.

Parts of (mainland) Spain are even further west than that, and there are
parts of Alaska where it's 0842 solar time at civil noon.

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