On Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:44:53 PM UTC-8, oriel36 wrote:

As I am the first person to

express the Equation of Time as a rate of change arising from the

unequal turning of the Earth to the central Sun about a travelling

ecliptic axis,this change shows up when the Earth enters its great

acceleration or deceleration phases.

You must be kidding, of course. You are far, far from being the first person to figure this out, but as usual, you are completely off-base as to the actual reason. The rest of us know that because of the Earth's various speeds along the ecliptic at different times of the year, it takes either a little less than 24 hours or a little more than 24 hours for the Sun to attain culmination on the meridian.

Regarding the equation of time, it has been fully understood for a long, long time. You have not discovered anything new.

\Paul A