Why the mismatch? Here’s where solar noon comes into play. It shows how the sun is out of sync with our 24-hour clocks. Though we commonly think of a day as exactly 24 hours, this is ...

Likewise, the clocks we developed to schedule our days were conceived to align with the 24-hour solar day. When we are observing standard time, noon is when the sun is generally at its highest point.

“All mechanical, powered by day/night thermal cycles, synchronized at solar noon,” said Bezos in his tweet. At noon each day, the sun will be overhead and illuminate the clock ...

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Not surprisingly, Western China is the deepest red. All of China’s clocks are set to Beijing time, meaning that solar noon happens at about 3 p.m. in the far-western Xinjiang province.

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Sunlight will also help the clock stay synchronized with solar noon as the Earth's axis tilts over the coming centuries. Above the power station, engineers will eventually install a cascading ...

The average solar noon in Durango is about 12 minutes after the clock noon. The extra 12 minutes are from our longitude of almost 108 degrees west, which is 7.2 hours different from the prime ...

In 2011, Nye donated a sun clock to the university. The Bill Nye Solar Noon Clock "incorporates a solar noon feature that funnels sunlight into a tube to illuminate a 14-inch disc in the clock ...