what statistical distribution can be used to describe the variation in time of  noon on a watch and a sundial.
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It is called the equation of time. It isn't really statistics though.
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at different times on the earth the sun is at different positions in the sky. When it's noon somewhere, it's midnight on the direct opposite side of the earth. If a particular time was called 12 noon to everyone it would seem silly to the people where it was midnight.
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"Q: WHEN YOU SEE AN AD WITH A CLOCK IN IT THE HANDS ARE ALWAYS\nPOSITIONED AT 10:10?\n\nA: WE CALLED TIMEX FOR YOUR ANSWER AND IT SAYS THE HANDS ON A CLOCK\nARE PLACED AT TEN-TEN BECAUSE IT'S A CREATIVE STANDARD INDUSTRY.\n\nTIMEX SAYS THE HANDS ON TIMEPIECES ARE PLACED AT TEN-TEN SO THE\nCOMPANY LOGO ON THE FACE WILL BE FRAMED AND NOT BLOCKED BY THE HANDS.\nTIMEX SAYS THE INDUSTRY STANDARD USED TO BE EIGHT-TWENTY BUT THAT\nLOOKED TOO MUCH LIKE A FROWN AND CREATED AN UNHAPPY LOOK.\n\nTIMEX SAYS IN ITS ADS, THE CLOCK HANDS ARE PLACED AT TEN-NINE AND\nTHIRTY SIX SECONDS, EXACTLY."
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This condition prevailed until 1884, when a system of standard time was adopted by the International Meridian Conference. Earth's surface was divided into 24 zones. The standard time of each zone is the mean astronomical time of one of 24 meridians, 15 degrees apart, beginning at the Greenwich, England, meridian and extending east and west around the globe to the International Date Line. (This system was actually put into use a year earlier by the railroad companies of the U.S. and Canada, who, until then, had to contend with some 100 conflicting local sun times observed in terminals across the land.)
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Time is merely a number. The same number is assigned to two different events if the two events are simultaneous. This is why we use a watch- the display of number on the watch and the occurance of an event were simultaneous and hence we accept to assign the number on the watch to be the time of occurance.\n              Time can be better understood if one knows how temperatures are assigned and they are analogous.
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Easy...\n\nWorld Time Clock\nhttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/\n\nWorld Weather\nhttp://www.weather.com/common/welcomepage/world.html?from=globalnav
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you can find lots of info on http://www.timezone.com/
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a.\nThere are few observation in X(t)\n-constant w set\n-cos and sin are periodic functions, this means cos(t) and cos(t+T) would behave identical over the time period T, 2T,3T... [consider sameargument for sin too]\n\nFor your refference let us consider the indices as n=1,2,..\n\nSo, for each n, X(t) will have a joint distribution with independent unit normal random variables Y1,Y2. And, this would be nothing but linear combination of two unit notmal distirbutions.\n\nSince, the behaviour if sine and cosine remains same over time intervals (nT), this joint distribution will remain same for all n=1,2,...\n\nThis indicated that the process {X(t)} is stationary.\n\nSince, the mean & variance of the each distribution occuring at eact time interval may not remain constant or same, This is the reason why {X(t)} is a wekly stationary process.\n\nI hope now you understand.\n\nAll the best.
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Determine if it is past noon depending on the relative time you've been awake, then by the position of the sun deterim the diresction, and wothout the aid of a sun dial you can make an estimate to the time.
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>There are 24 longitudinal divisions of Earth's surface in which a standard time is kept, the primary division being that bisected by the Greenwich meridian. Each zone is 15° of longitude in width, with local variations, and observes a clock time one hour earlier than the zone immediately to the east.Under this scheme, local time is always close to mean solar time, while comparing the time in different places is a simple matter of adding or subtracting whole hours. However, the one hour separation is not universal and,the shapes of time zones can be quite irregular because they usually,but not always,follow the boundaries of states,countries or other administrative areas.Some states do have more than one time zone.
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It has to do with time differences in work hours.
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it is concerned with greanwhich mean time (GMT) . it 10 o 10 . thats why watches always shows 10 o 10 globally.
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what type of statistics?
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Put the data of each set into bins according to their leading digit. Then according to Benford's law the distribution should be as follows:\nLeading digit Probability\n1 30.1%\n2 17.6%\n3 12.5%\n4 9.7%\n5 7.9%\n6 6.7%\n7 5.8%\n8 5.1%\n9 4.6%\n\nUsing a chi-squared or Kolmogorov test it is possible to determine which of the four data sets differs significantly from Benford's distribution.
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I understand that when a watches (or clocks) hands are at 10:10, it looks the cleanest and most symmetrical and shows the brand name, or logo, which is usually just below the center of the face. Some companies have started using 10:08 or 10:12 as the time in an advert because it will keep the longer minute hand from blocking the numeral.
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Usually that it's eleven minutes past eleven.\nBut some people (including myself) think that it's good luck when the clock shows straight ones, and if you make a wish it'll come true. (Like shooting stars, blowing on dandelions, blowing out candles, etc.)
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Let's specify "noon" as noon for that point on the earth, and ignore local time zones which use a local average for what is called noon.\n\nThe annual change in the relative position of the Earth's axis in relationship to the sun causes the height of the sun (solar altitude) to vary in our skies. The total variation in maximum solar altitude for any location on the Earth over a one year period is 47° (2 x 23.5 = 47). For example, at 50° North maximum solar altitude varies from 63.5° on the summer solstice to 16.5° on the winter solstice (Figure 6h-9). As measured from the due south.\nSince Cadilac Mt is at 44 1/3 degrees North Latitude, the sun would be at 44.33 + 23.5 = 67.88 degrees.