> Interesting -- so the planet's finally gottenits act together and settled on a rotational speed, huh? Cool. :)
Nobody said anything about a planet.
Actually, they did. UTC (which was the original reference) is defined such that noon is within .9 seconds of the sun being as directly overhead as it can be, and is thus directly tied to the behaviour of the planet.
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