John Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a question/challenge to all you sundial designers: what is the most
accurate design for a Standard Time dial?
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As a starter, the Singleton dial recently discussed here would seem to be
a reasonable candidate. It's main limitation, common to
John
My recent postings relate to this question. The leap year is not relavent
in the use of an analemma
for reading standard time. The leap year is an adjustment to keep the
number of rotations of the earth
in synch with the revolution about the sun. The reading of standard time
using an
Hi all,
I have a question/challenge to all you sundial designers: what is the most
accurate design for a Standard Time dial?
The reason behind the question is to find a way to stop members of the
public looking at a public dial, inspecting their watches, and concluding
that dials never tell
In reply to John Davis:
I have a question/challenge to all you sundial designers: what is the most
accurate design for a Standard Time dial?
My vote is of course for a dial with the EOT built into the hour lines to
give the annalema shapes such as used in the Swensen Sun dial at :
