JDG wrote: > >>This is interesting, because, since Stratos has no orbital >>inclination, day and night should have the same duration, >>so what can explain the fact the Sun sets [say] one hour >>after the "3/4 day" marked by the Clock? > >I did not really understand all of this, > A very wise thought :-) > but here are two thoughts: > >1) On Earth, the day change occurs in the middle of the night. Thus, if >day and night are equal, 1/4 day is dawn and 3/4 day is dusk. It would >not seem unreasonable that the last bits of sun are still visible up to an >hour after the official onset of "sunset." > This might be possible only if the "sun" was _much_ bigger. This is not the case. >2) There is no a priori reason for the day to change in the *middle* of the >night. After all, on Earth, it is quite common for activity to continue >to midnight and even later. By pushing the day change to the equivalent >of our 1am or 2am, the Founders could have ensured that very few people >were up and about at day change each night. > Ok. but the clock marks _3/4 day_. This is clearly an astronomical reference, that there remains only 1/4 of the day. Alberto Monteiro
