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- From: Dave.Aronson@p11.f120.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Dave Aronson)
- Sender: Uucp@blkcat.UUCP
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- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Period Calendar Wanted
- Message-ID: <725767220.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:05:34 -0500
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- jww@evolving.com (John W. Woolley) writeth:
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- JWW> Remember that, no matter the time of year, there are twelve equal hours
- JWW> of day and twelve of night; so that in winter day hours are much shorter
- JWW> than night hours.
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- Three questions.
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- 1. Are you pulling our legs? If no, proceed to 2....
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- 2. This implies that sunrise and sunset are at x:00 AM and x:00 PM respectively.
- What is x? I would guess 6 since it's halfway. Yes?
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- 3. Does anyone out there know of any self-adjusting timepieces that would take
- this stretching and shrinking of hours into account?
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