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"The 6-pound cannon is fired everyday at 1 PM, from May to September." Not at local noon?
by Animats 2y ago
"The 6-pound cannon is fired everyday at 1 PM, from May to September."
Not at local noon?
- p_l 2y agoFor navigational purposes you want your "noon" to be aligned with a known datum, and that often was Greenwich meridian.
- impossiblefork 2y agoSweden user summer time, so we get up earlier during the bright part of the year. So it's still local noon.
- ahazred8ta 2y agoAt 12:00, the calibration people were busy nailing down the time, so the public sync signal was given at 1.
- kzrdude 2y agoDuring summer, the peak sun altitude is at 1 pm (approximately) which makes it noon.
- rob74 2y agoBefore they introduced Daylight Saving Time, it was probably at local noon. It would be at local noon if it were fired between October and March, but it's only May to September, so...