On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 06:02:03 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:
On Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 8:56:23 PM UTC+1, Gerald Kelleher
wrote:

The Equation of Time fits inside the calendar system as it relies
on the noon event to equalize the variations to a 24 hour average so
there can be no fractional element left over as a single orbit.

As usual, it is hard to tell what you think you are talking about,
but noon moves around quite a bit within the 24 hour day, as much as
16 minutes.

It moves around by 32 minutes since it moves 16 minutes in both
directions around mean noon. But this is still only a little more
than 2% which is too small to qualify as "quite a bit".