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From: chrisb@dadla.UUCP (Chris Benenati)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: Spring Equilux Approaches ! Repent now !
Message-ID: <606@dadla.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 12:14:07 EST
Article-I.D.: dadla.606
Posted: Mon Mar 17 12:14:07 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 05:39:44 EST
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Reply-To: chrisb@dadla.UUCP (Chris Benenati)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Keywords: equilux, equinox,

In article <6895@tektronix.UUCP> brucec@tektronix.UUCP (Bruce Cheney) writes:
>
>According to the data shown below,
>(Portland, OR 45 deg N, 122 deg W) sunrise and sunset for the spring
>equilux, Mar 17, is at 6:20 (am and pm), for the fall equilux they are
>at 6:02 (am and pm PST). Why are they different ? How come they both aren't
>at 6:00 (am and pm PST) ? Fall equilux is close enough, but those
>20 minutes in spring bother me.

Perhaps we could start a petition intiative to get them legally changed,
so they both occur at exactly 6:00.   (I confess to being inspired by
a bill was once introduced into the, I think, Tennessee state legislature
to get PI set to 3 so it would be easier to work with).