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- Subject: Period Calendar Wanted
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- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 02:44:44
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- AK> If you need a concrete example, pretend that it's the autumn equinox,
- AK> by a modern clock the sun will rise at 6am and set at 6pm. The 12
- AK> 'hours' of that day are each 60 modern minutes long. Now suppose that
- AK> we are in a location (latitude) where on the winter solstice, the sun
- AK> rises at 9am and sets at 3pm. The 12 'hours' of that day are each 30
- AK> modern minutes long. I stated that I have never seen a sundial that
- AK> had *various* markings for the changing length of the 'hours' of the
- AK> day and asked if such a sundial did indeed exist.
- Milord, you are bound by the thinking of your watch. Whether
- the sun rises at 6 am or at 9 am, it rises at the horizon. It proceeds
- across the heavens, and it sets at the opposite horizon. The different
- lenght of the hours depend on how far north or south the sun is, but
- the sundial isn't usually set so that it can tell the difference. I
- trust someone more familiar with sundials will expound further on this
- topic. Also, I *assume* that a period sundial would not be marked by
- the specific modern hours, but rather by the canonical hours we've been
- discussing previously....
- Gwenllian CfM, Ansteorra
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