In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Magnus Danielson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Lux, James P wrote: : > : > : > On 10/26/08 9:45 AM, "Burt I. Weiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > : >> Except for the flat or pointy places. : >> : >> Burt, K6OQK : >> : >> At 05:00 AM 10/26/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : >>> At 10:44 PM 10/25/2008, Gretchen Baxter wrote... : >>>> I went to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ : >>>> : >>>> I saw that it was 10:35 in New York but in Adelaide it was 1:05 PM and : >>>> in : >>>> New Delhi 8:05. : >>>> : >>>> How can that be? : >>> The world is round. : > In the context of time-nuts, where we denigrate mere 1 ppm accuracy and talk : > about parts in 1E12 and more.. The Earth, being ellipsoidal by about a part : > in 300, is hardly "round". : : OK... it's a fairly ellipsoid object... and not flat.
And the 1/2 time zones have nothing to do with the shape of the earth in fine detail, but rather the fact that it is somewhat ball-like in a gross, part in 10 sort of way :-)[*] Warner _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.