I have seen, and I have pretty much settled on a cross or plus + sign for noon. Simon W-S www.illustratingshadows.com
On Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 09:40 Roger <[email protected]> wrote: > As XII is a large number 0 is often used for noon. > > > > Roger Bailey > > > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10 > > > > *From: *Kurt Niel <[email protected]> > *Sent: *September 25, 2018 12:16 AM > *To: *Steve Lelievre <[email protected]> > *Cc: *Sundial sundiallist <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: Hour label question > > > > Hi Steve, > > > > my first thought: I (as XII) as single line to be correct at the noon > line. Getting the geometrical center of XII is not that easy. > > > > Kurt > > > > Steve Lelievre <[email protected]> schrieb am Mo., 24. Sep. > 2018, 22:55: > > > 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 > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > >
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