mean solar time

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If mean solar time were strictly observed, people traveling east or west would have to reset their watches continually as the longitude changed, just to read the local mean time correctly.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Apparent solar time is based on the position of the Sun in the sky, and mean solar time is based on the average value of a solar day during the year.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Within each zone, all places keep the same standard time, with the local mean solar time of a standard line of longitude running more or less through the middle of each zone.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Every degree of longitude around the globe would correspond to a four-minute time difference away from mean solar time on that verdant hilltop just east of London.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2015

It was half-past three by mean solar time for that particular longitude.

From The British Barbarians by Allen, Grant