Murphy's law applies to sundials. I once stayed at a B&B in Keswick, Cumbria, England. In the garden there was a classic brass sundial but the gnomon was mounted backwards. It had been installed by the county engineer which may explain the layout of some of the roads in the Lakes District.
Roger Bailey, PEng Walking Shadow Designs N 51 W 115 At 04:03 PM 6/1/00 -0400, Richard M. Koolish wrote: >The cover of the June 2000 issue of Embedded Systems programming has >a sundial with the gnomon pointing in the wrong direction. I've already >emailed them about it. > >It's on my web page at: > > http://linux.bbn.com/~koolish > >with the full scan in: > > http://linux.bbn.com/~koolish/sundial_cover.jpg > > > >
