I agree that showing local time on a sundial is something to be encouraged.
The drawback is that it has to be explained every time to everyone -
otherwise the impression being given is that "it does not work" !

Alex

On 2 October 2015 at 12:12, Willy Leenders <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dan,
>
> What I mean is this:
>
> 1.
> Together with the sundial on the roof is given the EOT table.
> What can you do with it?
> As a result of the empirical way of construction on September 1 you can,
> using the EOT table, determine the standard Eastern European Time on
> other days.
> Specifying the length correction you could also determine the true local
> time
>
> 2.
> To indicate the standard Eastern European Time you have many options:
> clock, cell phone, computer ...
> There's no need to a sundial.
> Indicating the true local time is only possible on a sundial.
> Let him do it  !
>
>
> Willy Leenders
> Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium)
>
> Visit my website about the sundials in the province of Limburg (Flanders)
> with a section 'worth knowing about sundials' (mostly in Dutch):
> http://www.wijzerweb.be
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Op 1-okt-2015, om 22:06 heeft Dan-George Uza het volgende geschreven:
>
> Willy,
>
> I'm sorry but I did not quite understand your message. The dial is
> supposed to show standard Eastern European Time, not true local time. The
> longitude correction for Bistrita is already built in the hour marks
> because they were empirically drawn according to the watch when EoT was 0.
> Therefore the correction table only deals with variations in Eot.
>
> Dan
>
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Willy Leenders <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> A nice project for the decoration of the roof !
>> However, it is not possible to read the true local time.
>> And one can not deduce it for the place at longitude: 24° 30′ 3.82′′ E
>> (Bistrita) with only the table for EOTas a tool.
>>
>>
>> Willy Leenders
>> Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium)
>>
>> Visit my website about the sundials in the province of Limburg (Flanders)
>> with a section 'worth knowing about sundials' (mostly in Dutch):
>> http://www.wijzerweb.be
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Op 1-okt-2015, om 21:24 heeft Dan-George Uza het volgende geschreven:
>>
>> Dear group,
>>
>> I am happy to be able to share a picture of the first Romanian reclining
>> sundial built recently by Damaschin Berende, a friend from a neighboring
>> town. It's made of plywood, it sits on a roof and it features both a EoT
>> correction table and interchangeable hour marks for winter time and
>> daylight saving time. Reported accuracy is so far around 1:30 min.
>> Direction of gnomon across the roof was fixed by taking a plumb bob shadow
>> ​reading ​
>> from the base of the gnomon at local noon, the elevation angle was
>> calculated according to the latitudine and the hours were marked on the
>> shadow during September 1st, when EoT was 0. I especially like the wooden
>> pole etched with traditional solar motifs and the rooster on top. You can
>> view more photos here:
>>
>> http://cerculdestele.blogspot.ro/2015/10/sine-sole-sileo-ceasul-solar-inclinat.html
>>
>> Please also consider it for the Sundial of the Month on
>> http://sundialatlas.eu using ID no. RO000023.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> ​Dan Uza
>> <sine sole sileo -.jpg>
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