"Sam Spade" wrote in message
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I don't want to whip this puppy to death, but if ACME TRACON tells PDQ VFR
tower to "release N1234C at 24 minutes past the hour, void after 27 past
the hour" what possible separation duties is the tower performing other
than to comply with the release time, which assures the separation the
TRACON is providing will, in fact, happen.


It may be providing runway separation between N1234C and VFR traffic.

You're still missing the point, you said local controllers did not provide
IFR separation. That just ain't so.