[Avodah] Where is the Molad announced for?

[Zev Sero]

On 23/12/20 10:22 am, David Cohen via Avodah wrote:
> So I think that the molad was certainly set to be accurate for that 
> general area of the world , and hence that first molad was set for 14 
> hours into Friday, rather than 13 or 15, but that it was set for exactly 
> 14 hours and 0 chalakim simply in order to have a nice, round starting 
> point for calculations.  Sure, you could then work backwards and 
> calculate the *exact* meridian in whose mean solar time that the molad 
> would have been accurate for in some given year, but I think that's 
> somewhat beside the point.

And then someone decided to mess up the simplicity of that calculation 
by teaching us to start our calculations a year earlier at BaHaRaD...

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