Phil Wheeler wrote:
Well, not really. You need the C as in UTC to really define it.

They're two different things--but not different enough in most
applications. You'd want to make the distinction in any case where you
care about getting your location very precisely. But if you're just
talking about when you saw such and such a DSO, then I should think it
wouldn't matter.

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