The Impermanent Site · Room 12, with everyone
The same hour, in both halves of the year
21:53 by the sun
Kyoto and Adelaide stand on one meridian at mirror latitudes, so by the sun it is the same hour in both, 21:53; the clocks disagree because they follow time zones and summer time while the sun follows the meridian. Today the sun climbs to 41° over Kyoto and 69° over Adelaide; the day lasts 10 h 48 in one and 13 h 30 in the other. The season on the hills is half a year apart. The weather in each half is the real weather there, refreshed every twenty minutes.