Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1880 — Local or Relative Time. [ARTICLE]

Local or Relative Time.

Local time is that which is shown by our common clocks. It indicates the time at any given place, the meridian of that place being the standard from which it is reckoned; therefore,the time ortho clocks at any two places will differ by the difference of their meridians. Thus, when it is noon at New York, or when the sun is on its meridian, the sun at that instant at Washington is east of the meridian of that place, because the meridian of New York is east of Washington ; therefore, the clocks at Washington will be earlier or dower than those in New York, by the time the sun takes to go from the meridian.of New York to the meridian of Washington—viz., 12 minutes 2 seconds. Hence, when it is 12 o’clock M. at New Orleans and St. Louis, it is 1 o’clock. P. M. at Pbiladel>hia, which is a difference of one hour 'or every fifteen degrees of longitude. By this regulation, the sun is made to come to the meridian of every place about 12 o’clock. It is incomprehensible to many how it can be true that the sun rises and sets at the same time at all places on the same latitude around the world. The difference of local time will account for this. It is not to be understood that when the sun rises at Boston at 6 o'clock, that it is lAm, at that instant of atoofale time, rising at every place on the same latitude; but that at all places on that latitude, when the Bun rises, it will be 6 o'dock by the of thoee placet. The sun will go from the horizon of Philadelphia, west to the horizon of St. Louis, in an hour.

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