Comment by maratc

> so that solar noon might not happen at 12:00 anymore

The solar noon never happens at 12:00 anywhere anymore. We've left that era about 200 years ago when we synched clocks with the capital city for the benefit of train schedules.

P.S. Well, technically the solar noon happens at 12:00 in New York on January 2nd, Chicago on Jan 14, Denver on Dec 25th, Los Angeles on Jan 9, etc. (on other dates, it's off.) In Santiago de Compostela — where they want to be on the same clock as Warsaw — solar noon happens as "early" as 13:18 and as late as 14:40.