Hi Peter, I firmly support that idea of building a version for the southern hemisphere. I think there will be enough interested people living on the "down under" side of the world.
Nice job ! Regards, Daniel VERSCHATSE Santiago - Chile >> Dear Peter, >> In answer to your questions: >> i) A correction for longitude is not necessary since the sundial display >> can >> be rotated freely on the end of the angled mounting bar (which will remain >> positioned parallel to the axis of the earth), and thus can be set to any >> desired time, including local time, mean time, and daylight savings time. >> There is no built-in correction for the equation of time. >> ii) Currently we only have sundials for the northern hemisphere. Perhaps >> we >> will build a version for the southern hemisphere soon (with a modified >> mask >> that contains the numbers in reverse order), but at this point we have no >> immediate plans to do so. >> Daniel >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Peter Mayer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 8:51 PM >> To: '[email protected]' >> Cc: Scharstein, Daniel >> Subject: Re: Digital sundial available! >> Dear Daniel, >> > >> >I am pleased to announce that our digital sundial is finally available. >> >I hope that many of you will find this interesting, and I look forward to >> >any feedback you may have! >> It's most interesting. I do have two questions. i) It looks as >> though the dial shows local apparent time. Are you including a correction >> for longitude when you construct them? (I imagine that correcting for the >> EoT is out of the question) >> ii) do you have plans to make versions for the Southern Hemisphere? >> Peter Mayer >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Peter Mayer | [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Politics Department | >> University of Adelaide | 'phone:+61.8 8303 5606/5610 >> Adelaide, SA 5005 | FAX: (+61.8) 8303 3446 >> AUSTRALIA | >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
