Re: Adjusting dial to new location

2023-04-09 Thread Michael Ossipoff
For complete generality: If your sundial was made for a latitude greater then yours by an amount called “DeltaLat” (which could be positive or negative), & if you want the dial to give LTST for a longitude 7 degrees west of yours (maybe because that’s your standard-meridian), then: After the tip,

Re: Adjusting dial to new location

2023-04-09 Thread Michael Ossipoff
Yes, I spoke of a special-case in which you’re 7 degrees east of your standard-meridian. …for a concrete example. But the rest of what I said was for the general-case in which you want the dial to read in the LTST at your standard-meridian. But yes, I didn’t speak of when the dial is made for a di

Re: Adjusting dial to new location

2023-04-09 Thread Steve Lelievre
On 2023-04-08 8:52 p.m., Michael Ossipoff wrote: I know you said you wanted a link, not instructions, but people have been suggesting how to achieve dial-autocorrection to Local True Solar Time (LTST) at the standard-meridian, instead of one’s own meridian. So I felt that it would be justifi