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Re: A noon sight conundrum
From: Zorbec Legras
Date: 2003 Dec 2, 10:49 -0500

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From: Peter Fogg 
Date:         Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:01:01 +1100
To: NAVIGATION-L@LISTSERV.WEBKAHUNA.COM
Subject:      Re: A noon sight conundrum

> One possible answer is that our convention of adding a day every 4 years doesn't
> exactly account for the time it takes the earth to orbit the sun.

Indeed 4 times 5h 48mn 46.08sec never make 24 h.

But never forget when extracting data from the nautical almanac always enter 
with time AND DATE of Greenwich.

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