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Assam changes its Standard Time





Horologium Oscillatorium

the Pendulum Clock

  

Gauhati, January 01, 2014: After 66 years of following the Indian Standard Time (IST), Assam has decided to go back in time to follow ‘chaibagaan time’, a daylight schedule British tea planters introduced more than 150 years ago. The resetting, the government feels, will help save energy and improve lifestyles impacted by the IST-induced late start of daylight work schedule.







Shown here is the  chart for the 1st Jan New Moon. Notice that the chart shows the now familiar prominent Uranus-Pluto square straddling the horizon axis. This is a combination that refer to transformation, the collapse of an old order and the beginning of a new one. Uranus [8ar41] is conjunct iota Horologium [8ar24]. Horologium is from Latin horologium, from Greek orologion, literally 'that which tells the hour', from ora, 'hour', and -logion, that which tells, from legein to tell. The constellation, Horologium Oscillatorium,[1] was added by La Caille in 1752 to honor Christiaan Huygens who invented the first pendulum clock in 1656, based on the pendulum introduced by Galileo Galilei. With Uranus here is it any surprise that Assam has decided to change its standard time!



Fixed stars in Horologium
Star
1900
2000
R A
Decl 1950
Lat
Mag
Sp
zeta
01ARI05
02ARI28
039 46 33
-54 45 48
-63 39 51
5.26
F2
eta
03ARI14
04ARI37
038 56 20
-52 45 32
-61 50 53
5.26
A9
iota
06ARI50
08ARI13
040 12 50
-51 00 55
-61 00 55
5.42
G0
alpha
14TAU26
15TAU49
063 05 09
-42 25 00
-61 43 59
3.83
K1

  




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