Local mean time is a form of solar time that corrects the variations of local apparent time, forming a uniform time scale at a specific longitude. Its uniformity depends only on the accuracy of the clocks used to measure it.

Local mean time was used from the early 19th century, when local solar time or sundial time was last used, until standard time was adopted on various dates in the several countries. Standard time means that the same time is used throughout some region—usually, it was either offset from Greenwich Mean Time or was the local mean time of the capital of the region. The difference between local mean time and local apparent time is the equation of time.

Joe Pug (born Joe Pugliese^{[citation needed]}) is a singer-songwriter from Chicago. He has released two EPs, Nation of Heat and In the Meantime, the latter of which has been made available for free on his website. He has toured extensively since 2008 and has opened for alt-country pioneer Steve Earle, singer-songwriter Josh Ritter and folk rocker M. Ward among others. Pug released his first full-length album, Messenger, in February 2010.

Originally from Greenbelt, Maryland, Joe Pug attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS), where he was active in the school's drama department, playing Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet and Argan in Molière's The Hypochondriac, among other roles. Pug was also a member of his high school's extracurricular improv comedy ensemble, ALONIZ! Pug graduated from ERHS in 2002 and was accepted as an undergraduate student at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, where Pug studied playwriting. The day before his senior year fall classes started, Pug left the university in order to begin his career as a musician.