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What would be examples of such contracts, where you need solar noon to be at 1300 instead of 1200?

• ThrustVectoring 9y ago
  If you want to have a bunch of people who typically get ready at 0800 with their children for school at 0830 and work at 0900, it's much easier to adjust what time 0800 is compared to solar noon rather than have a negotiation between various employers, schools, school busses, school meal subcontractors, etc, to simultaneously replace times people need to be places by +/- 1 hour. Most of the timing isn't formalized to contracts, but is to customary agreements.
  • mkempe 9y ago
    That is all relative to the commonly agreed time, it does not require solar noon to be at 1200 or 1300, nor any other arbitrary further time-shifting by 30 or 60 minutes.