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August 28, 2017 2:18 pm at 2:18 pm
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ChadGadya
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DrYidd, are you sure those poskim you quote aren’t only taking about midnight rather than midday? At midnight we don’t have a directly observable astronomical phenomenon as we do for midday, so it makes more sense to go for the halfway-in-hours definition there than it does for midday.