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From: Peter Fogg <>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:01:01 +1100
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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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