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Of course, the definition of "hottest midnight" depends on time zone arbitrariness, unless they mean local astronomical midnight, which I doubt. (The definitio
by bloak 3y ago
Of course, the definition of "hottest midnight" depends on time zone arbitrariness, unless they mean local astronomical midnight, which I doubt.
(The definition of "hottest day" hardly depends on time zones in practice because the hottest time is very unlikely to be around the middle of the night. Perhaps they should have instead looked for the highest of the lowest temperatures reached between consecutive noons.)
- pc86 3y agoWon't this vary by less than an hour? Seems like a distinction without a difference to me.
- bloak 3y agoOf course this is just pedantry, but if you wanted to compare different places on Earth then the difference between civil midnight and solar midnight can be a lot more than one hour. China has a single time zone, for example, so solar noon in China can be anywhere between 11:27 and 15:10 (https://www.timeanddate.com/time/china/one-time-zone.html https://www.timeanddate.com/time/china/one-time-zone.html).