I like to use N. It's good for Noon and for North.
Don Snyder
On 9/30/2018 10:47 AM, Simon Wheaton Smith wrote:
I have seen, and I have pretty much settled on a cross or plus + sign for noon.
Simon W-S
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On Sun, Sep 30, 2018, 09:40 Roger
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
As XII is a large number 0 is often used for noon.
Roger Bailey
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From: Kurt Niel<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: September 25, 2018 12:16 AM
To: Steve Lelievre<mailto:[email protected]>
Cc: Sundial sundiallist<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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
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