Hi all, Is there a time system that has the zero hour point at local noon?
At the Observatory of Besancon (read c-cedilla) in France is a (heavily deteriorated) analemmatic sundial, which has a full ring of hour points, numbered from 0 to 23. Oddly enough, the 0-hour point is at the northern tip of the ellipse. Standing on the date line, that is where one's shadow falls at local noon. Is this just an amateur quirk, or does it have to do with the astronomical atmosphere around here? PS. This numbering is different from the one that evoked the "Nought at noon" thread last July, where hour numbers ran VI, VII...XI, 0, I, II...VI. Regards, ===================================== Frans W. Maes Peize, The Netherlands 53.1 N, 6.5 E www.biol.rug.nl/maes/ =====================================
