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Re: Keep checking your GPS
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2015 Feb 9, 14:41 -0500
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2015 Feb 9, 14:41 -0500
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Bill Bwrote: >In accord with astronomical tradition, astronomers had always used Greenwich Mean > Astronomical Time (GMAT)--the same as GMT but with the day beginning at noon. To further complicate the issue, the Naval day also began at noon, but 24 hours before the corresponding astronomical day. That is, the naval day began 12 hours before the midnight start of the civil day, but the astronomical day began 12 hours after the start of the civil day. Don Seltzer