Hi All, Steve Lelievre wrote: > I have recently seen a couple of dials which use a nought (a digit > zero) in > place of XII,... I've never seen this done on a clock,...
I am a clockmaker. I have repaired a lot of clocks and I have never seen it on a clock either. I suggest that the proximity of the hour lines near noon combined with XII being such a wide Roman numeral may have led the makers to use a 0 just for spacing. Bob
