{"id":15149,"date":"2014-07-28T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=15149"},"modified":"2014-07-28T03:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T08:00:46","slug":"watch-for-an-infestation-of-time-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15149","title":{"rendered":"Watch for an Infestation of Time Flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/113328\/having-fun-with-the-equation-of-time\/\">Having Fun with the Equation of Time<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For most of history, the daily passage of time was denoted by the Sun. Solar Noon occurs when the Sun stands at its highest elevation (also known as its altitude) above the local horizon when it transits the north-south meridian. The trouble is, the passage apparent solar time doesn\u2019t <em>exactly<\/em> match what we call solar mean time, or the 24 hour rotation of the Earth. In fact, this discrepancy can add up to as much as more than 16 minutes ahead of solar noon in late October and November and over 12 minutes behind it in February. This is worth bringing up this week because this factor, known as \u201cThe Equation of Time\u201d \u2014 think \u201cequation\u201d in the sense that sundial owners must factor it in to make solar mean and apparent time \u201cequal\u201d \u2014 reache[d] its shallow minimum for 2014 this Saturday at 7:00 UT\/3:00 AM EDT with a value of -6.54 minutes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having Fun with the Equation of Time For most of history, the daily passage of time was denoted by the Sun. Solar Noon occurs when the Sun stands at its highest elevation (also known as its altitude) above the local &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/15149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}