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Re:Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole by JdeBP on Thursday March 19, 2020 @09:42AM (#22627388)
Interestingly, you highlight an error in the article that gave me pause:

> Coordinated Universal Time, which is based, ironically, on the position of the sun relative to Earth.

As you say, UTC is not a sun clock. It is based upon Atomic Time.

I also wondered who, knowing history, would consider the concept of December not to be fabricated. (-:

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Re:Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole by jhayward on Thursday March 19, 2020 @12:06PM (#22628775)
> As you say, UTC is not a sun clock.

UTC is most definitely a sun clock. It is coordinated to correspond to within 1 second of mean solar time at 0º longitude.

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Re:Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole by JdeBP on Friday March 20, 2020 @11:49AM (#22638539)
That it is an Atomic Time clock that is kept close to a sun clock does not make it a sun clock.
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Re:Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole by jwandborg on Thursday March 19, 2020 @12:22PM (#22628968)
If it was a sun clock it wouldn't have to be coordinated, it would just be.
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Re:Time Has No Meaning at the North Pole by Legogris on Friday March 20, 2020 @03:50AM (#22635820)
Not true, since it has leap days and leap seconds.
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