Hi John, On the flip side of your question, one could ask "Is there any location on this planet that is not a sundial lovers paradise?" or to go one step further - "Is there any plane (flat surface) at any location that is not interesting?" This leads me to a few questions.
1. Is there any flat surface anywhere that never gets sunshine at some moment during the year? 2. I know that time changes during the year in which the sun will "set" over a surface. It might be close (around 4pm for the sun to "go around" the one side of my home) but there is still a lot of variation - as much as 40 minutes from 4pm during the year. In other words - the sun is not always directly east at 6:00 am. So must we eliminate clock time and sun time from the "interesting" relationship to a surface (plane)? -- keep in mind ANY surface must have an interesting aspect - not just a plane parallel to the axis of the earth. 3. I can't prove this but I think -- "for each flat surface ( plane ) at any location -- there is a second location on this planet -- with a set number of Italian hours (hours from sunset) that is the same number of Italian hours for anytime during the year." That is - when the sun "goes around" my house -- then at some location X (which doesn't change) there are Y number of hours (which doesn't change) until sunset. You could say that every surface has a twin location. This is a little like -- any plane has a location on earth where the plane is horizontal. But there is a second part -- the Italian hour is constant and need not be zero. I need to find a way to prove this, if it is correct. 4. Are there other "times" that can make any surface interesting? Still thinking -- Happy dialing, Warren Thom (Lat 41.649deg N - Long. 88.096deg W) John Carmichael wrote: > Is there anywhere on earth where there is no Daylight Saving Time and is > located on the meridian at the center of a timezone? > > John Carmichael
