Today I visited a sundial that I had not viewed before.
I got myself in quite a muddle when I tried to check its technical
quality. The first thing I looked for was a noon gap. There was none but
I noted the noon position was labeled with a roman number I, which I
took to mean the hours are numbered for Daylight Saving. So then, I
looked for the 7 am and 7 pm marks to check on gnomon positioning.
Nothing seemed right.
After a moment of confusion I realized that the numbering is not
Daylight Saving - I had been misled by the use of roman I rather than
XII to label the noon position. In other words, the hour labels run ...
VIII, IX, X, XI, I, I, II, III ...
There would have been enough space to use XII as the noon hour label. Is
the use of numeral I simply a mistake on the dial or could there be some
other explanation?
Steve
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