mean solar time
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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
How is the situation improved by introducing mean solar time and standard time?
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
The Earth accomplishes a revolution on its axis in 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds mean solar time, which is the length of the sidereal day.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel
