Tom Van Baak scripsit: > Another observation is that our local newspaper always > prints Sun and Moon rise and set times. But not time > of noon. Why is this? Maybe it's just our paper (noon > implies sun and we don't see much of it here in Seattle).
Some people need to know sunset for religious reasons, and perhaps sunrise is occasionally useful too; I have been checking sunset times lately to figure out when to tell my daughter to be at home by. Solar noon just doesn't have the same importance. > Sure, but it seems to me - regardless of the timezone, > regardless of daylight saving time, regardless of the > season, regardless of latitude, to the general public > 12:00 means lunchtime (or their VCR got unplugged). > The sun doesn't have much say about it. Amen. -- Is a chair finely made tragic or comic? Is the John Cowan portrait of Mona Lisa good if I desire to see [EMAIL PROTECTED] it? Is the bust of Sir Philip Crampton lyrical, www.ccil.org/~cowan epical or dramatic? If a man hacking in fury www.reutershealth.com at a block of wood make there an image of a cow, is that image a work of art? If not, why not? --Stephen Dedalus