Question

What is the local time in Albuquerque, NM at solar noon on June11? Coordinates are35.0844° N latitude, 106.6504° W longitude.

Answer 1

The local time of a place implies time based on the sun's apparent position on the sky from that place. However standard time implies a standard time-zone based system.

Albuquerque, NM falls under the Mountain Standard time-zone, during June this time zone is 6hrs behind the GMT.

The Local time at any place at solar noon is 12PM. So Albuquerque, NM has local time 12 PM at the solar noon.

However, from the GMT it has (106.6504 * 4min)= 7hours 6min 36sec of time difference.

But Mountain Standard Time has 7hours difference to GMT.

Therefore the standard time at Albuquerque, NM at the solar noon is = 12PM - 6min36sec = 11:53:24AM - 1hr (for daylight saving) = 10:53:24AM