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Re: 8/12/2002: Digital sundial
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Originally posted by Undertoad
And they don't mention whether it knows about daylight savings time. [/b]
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I suspect it knows only about true solar time. Back in the 1960's Scientific Amarican's Amateur Scientist column published a description of a highly accurate sundial that could be adjusted to keep mean solar time, as a clock would.
But from the photo, it looks like you have to judge the relative brightness of the figures for the ten-minute intervals to read the time, probably with about two minute accuracy.
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