On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 12:35:19 AM UTC-6, Gerald Kelleher wrote:

"Absolute time, in astronomy, is distinguished from relative, by the equation
of time. For the natural days are truly unequal, though they are commonly
considered as equal and used for a measure of time; astronomers correct this
inequality for their more accurate deducing of the celestial motions...The
necessity of which equation, for determining the times of a phænomenon, is
evinced as well from the experiments of the pendulum clock, as by eclipses of
the satellites of Jupiter."

And you disagree with this because:

- Isaac Newton said it; and

- He used the word "relative", which means that it's connected to the crazy theories of that guy Einstein.

In doing a web site to find Kepler's statement of the Equation of Time, I found a web site with the following statement:

"The ‘Equation of Time’, a man-computed convention around which our clocks are
calibrated, has caused several flawed conclusions"

at

http://cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php...ec fd9c004e68

There may be a man after your own heart out there!

John Savard