In my writings, I have been using the term Time Zone Offset (really, it
should be Time Zone Meridian Offset but that would be too long).
I'm happy enough to change to some other term that is generally agreed,
but I think the adopted term should provide an explicit indication of
its purpose.
Yes, I agree that in English the best word would be some kind of "offset"
most likely for local longitude. Offset has near synonyms like
"displacement" or "correction." But it is appropriate here because but it
generally implies either side-to-side or quantitative movement. It also
implies
Dear Fabio,
In The Netherlands we use "lengtecorrectie", abbreviated LC, which would
translate to "longitude correction" in English.
Some (international) standardization of terminology would be nice!
Best regards,
Frans Maes
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:06 PM Michael Ossipoff
wrote:
> I usually
I usually say "Longitude-Correction". Of course, for sundials, it's always
expressed in minutes.
But I like "Local Constant", because it's shorter.
What's wrong with "Local Constant"? It *is* a constant, for a given
locale.
I'll probably start saying "Local Constant".
Usually I don't know
Dear Fabio,
I use "longitude correction" ("corectie de longitudine"), but also
"meridian correction" ("corectie de meridian") would sound okay in Romanian.
Ciao,
Dan
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 12:55 PM fabio.sav...@nonvedolora.it <
fabio.sav...@nonvedolora.it> wrote:
> hi all, I've a matter to
Dear Fabio,
An interesting message...
> In Italy some sundials show the
> written 'costante locale'...
I find Italian gnomonic vocabulary great
fun. There are technical terms which
sound very good in Italian but sound very
odd when directly translated into English.
I especially enjoy 'Foro
hi all, I've a matter to put to you.
In Italy some sundials show the written 'costante locale', that can be
translated as 'local constant'.
The authors of these sundials use this expression meaning the time
difference between the Local Sun Time and the Time-Zone Sun Time.
This 'local costant'
