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Noun: solar time
  1. A reckoning of the passage of time based on the Sun's position in the sky.
    "In September the Sun takes less time (as measured by an accurate clock) to make an apparent revolution than it does in December; 24 "hours" of solar time can be 21 seconds less or 29 seconds more than 24 hours of clock time."

Type of: time

Encyclopedia: Solar time