[time-nuts] Local Solar Time Clock
David J Taylor
david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Jan 19 07:14:13 UTC 2014
From: Chris Albertson
ll the solutions proposed so far don' meet the criterion that the clock not
be software. It's too esy to make a software display. yu just start with
UTC and apply a formula from an amanac.
But what was requested was something made with gears and springs
I wonder if you really need a special clock? Can't you adjust a normal
spring driven clock to run fast (or is it slow?) by about 1/3 of a percent
(one day per year)? This should be within the range of adjustment.
So take a normal clock and go outdoors at noon and look at your sundial.
Set the clock to 12:00 at local noon. Then the next day check again and
adjust the lever on the rear of the clock to make it go faster or slower.
After a few days it should work.
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Are you perhaps thinking of sidereal time, Chris?
David
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