On Tue 3 Sep 2002 (08:28:39), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From my limited knowledge of analemmatics, I think this design will not > function correctly because if you change the size of the ellipse, you > must also change the size of the dateline. This could explain why > you've had complaints about Daylight Savings markings. > > The only way you could show both Standard and Daylight Saving would be > to have removable numerals that use the same ellipse that you change > twice a year. (But even then it won't show Standard or Daylight Saving > unless corrected for EOT). > > It would be a shame to limit your sales market to those areas that only > have Standard Time because you be abandoning 95% of your potential > customers. Thanks for your quick reply, John - but I don't see how you could possibly infer from my message that we get 'complaints', or lose 95% of our market! In the almost 20 years that we have been running this business (comprising many tens of thousands of customers worldwide), we have NEVER received any form of complaint that our double-ring "Sunclock" is in any way inaccurate at telling correct clock time - either Standard or Daylight-Saving, unless some customer has not followed our specific measurements and instructions. Please note our layout is NOT just a 'traditional analemmatic', having two Hour-marker rings based around a normal Date-scale. BOTH its double-ring, AND the Date-scale are 'modified' so as to effectively create layouts that accurately tell clock time at any time of day, or year - and automatically change-over from indicating Standard to/from Daylight-Saving time, without needing a person to add or subtract an hour. Its main advantage (over the conventional analemmatics), is that it will 'track' a person's shadow in a much better way throughout the year. Frans Maes (an acknowledged 'expert' on analemmatic dials) has called our version "very smart", and illustrates an example on his own Web-site. You have simply assumed that we have just added another ring to a traditional layout, which would obviously not work correctly - and I request your 'apology', for the hasty comments you made. In addition to Copyright, we hold the 'Design Right', (similar to but more flexible than a patent) on the layout of our novel double-ring "Sunclock". Just to clarify - we ONLY provide 'double-ring' layouts to countries which HAVE Daylight-Saving, and 'single-ring' layouts to countries which do NOT. In the case of Turkey (which does use DST), it is not our policy to supply a 'single-ring' layout - even if a customer specifically asks us to do so! We could obviously very easily supply traditional layouts if we wanted to, but we leave such one-ring analemmatics to be supplied by other designers. Therefore the only customers which we might 'lose' are those who prefer to have a single-ring (perhaps due to cost considerations), in locations that use Daylight-Saving time - but that is a small loss when compared with the advantages of selling accurate double-ring "Sunclocks" in those locations, because every layout automatically becomes its own 'advertisement' for us. If we sold 'single-ring' plans to DST areas, then those would not function as effectively as our 'double-ring' version - which is why we don't do it, since that is what could perhaps damage our worldwide business reputation. Douglas Hunt, (Proprietor). -- "MODERN SUNCLOCKS" - 'Human Sundials', using YOUR OWN SHADOW to tell time. Looking for a useful, decorative, yet UNIQUE feature ? - you've found it ! For further details and photographs, see our Website at: www.sunclocks.com Mail Address: 1 Love Street, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, KA13 7LQ, UK. Tel & Fax (UK): 01294 552250. International Tel & Fax: + 44 1294 552250. Send E-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
