I want to know the exact path of the sun.  Where it rises on earth
first in the morning ie: which country? or /city/place eg: south
pacific, kiribati -  to the path it follows across the earth ie: exact
countries/city/place to where it sets in the evening - and what times
it does this (if possible). thankyou

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Request for Question Clarification by mathtalk-ga on 23 Feb 2005 13:17 PST

Hi, chickenhead2004-ga:

Are you interested in formulas to compute where the Sun is directly
overhead with respect to the Earth at any given day/time?  Or perhaps
the setting and rising times for a given day with respect to a pair of
latitude/longitude coordinates?

Because the time zone boundaries are not precisely lines of longitude
(or even approximately so in some cases; all of China shares a single
time zone!), just keeping track of what time it is at varying points
on the globe could be a challenge.  So typically computations are done
with respect to "universal" time, and the result convert to a "local"
time as appropriate.

regards, mathtalk-ga

The times and "path" which is through the sky, changes every day.

chickenhead2004,

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Really? :(
So is there any way I can become offical?

The international date line is just a human contrivance.  The sun
doesn't rise or set anywhere "first".  It is a continuous action.

the reason Pink's message doesn't appear to make sense is because I
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