Originally Posted by Gus
when the sun is directly over head, directly above an open well, and the light shines down into the exact bottom of the well onto the surface of the water, is it 12 noon?

According to my little almanac program, doomsday. Here transit never happens higher than 67° 46'. And that's at 12:29 pm local. Actually between time zones which are irregular and daylight savings which are political and bizarre to calculate, time can be very confusing to figure. Writing that almanac program had me cross-eyed more than a few times. (Find local time given UTC and lat/lon)


The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh

Which explains a lot.