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I don't see how you run into legal problems. The break from one day to the next still occurs at a well defined time, 23:59:59 + 1 second, or 00:00:00. Midni
by walnutclosefarm 4y ago
I don't see how you run into legal problems. The break from one day to the next still occurs at a well defined time, 23:59:59 + 1 second, or 00:00:00. Midnight isn't the middle of the night (or noon exactly at solar zenith), except on 15deg meridians anyway. What will happen is that over time, those "golden" meridians will shift slightly. The only people who will notice are those that are using time for celestial navigation. Terrestial navigation, which is almost entirely done with GPS these days, won't be affected at all (GPS already doesn't use leap seconds). And, yes, sundials will gradually get out of sync, and have eventually to be rotated on their axis to be right.