Re: accruate "sundials"

["jtaylor"]

<geraldkelleher@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1119699326.030483.314720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To JTaylor
>
> It is  a 'bad ' thing because it amounts to gross misconduct insofar as
>   the principles  which determine that clocks can be used as rulers of
> distance (Longitude problem) are based on axial rotation as an
> independent motion at 15 degrees per hour at 24 hours/360 degrees in
> total  while the Newtonian/relativistic sidereal value  determines that
> rulers measure distance and clocks measure time and go about destroying
> the exquisite principles that link clocks to terrestial longitudes and
> astronomy

Aren't you extending the usefulness of a 24-hour day to a realm (astronomy)
where it is not

a) true; and

b) as accurate?