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Subject: Re: What were the Lunar Distances for - the request to Dan Allen
From: John McKeel (jgmckeel-250927) (jgmckeel@XXX.XXX)
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 10:26:07 EST
Good Morning List,
Dan, thank you so much for scanning your copy of Bowditch but I am so sorry
the binding broke! That is such a heartbreak. Let's hope it was for a worthy
cause. I have a question about Article 308:
"Greenwich Date. -- Correct the chronometer time for its error form
Greenwhich time and deduce the Greenwich date, i.e., the Greenwich day and
hour (mean time), reckoning the hours in succession from 0 to 24, beginning
at noon."
Does that mean that in the 1800's the 24 hour clock began at noon? That 2300
hr. would be 11 AM? I suppose that makes sense since it was much easier to
determine noon rather than mid-night. Can anyone give me a synopis of 24
hour time?
Cheers,
John McKeel
Phoenix, Arizona
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