Geostar Products sells an 8 inch, horizontal garden sundial called The Accurate Sundial TM. After reviewing your requirements, I suspect that you place an importance on the accuracy of the sundial reading. Most off the shelf garden sundials will not give you that. The Accurate Sundial TM meets your requirements. It provides an accurate reading by using a custom fabricated dial face and gnomon to suit your geographical location and time zone. For those who observe daylight savings time, the sundial face includes both time scales.
You can learn more about The Accurate Sundial TM by visiting www.store.yahoo.com/geostar-products/acsuntm2.html -----Original Message----- From: Mike Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de <sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de> Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 3:46 PM Subject: Shopping for a sundial which reads standard time > >What sundials are available which read standard time? I'm an >engineer/CS person and I like stuff that's over designed. I would be >interested in a 'garden variety' unit - as in, to place in a garden. >The following features would be nice: > >1. Adjustable for latitude/longitude >2. Adjustable for daylight savings time >3. Direct read in standard time. >4. Probably an equatorial design > >The units I am aware of are > >- Gunning Heliochronometer >- Sunquest (is there a kit still available?) >- Higgon Equatorial with interchangeable gnomon >- Pilkington & Gibbs, historic >- Wegner (design doesn't appeal to me) >- Swanstrom analemmic gnomon, not a production unit (yet) > >I went to Harvey Mudd college, and they had a unit which used >analemmae (sp?) on an essentially 'fat' equatorial with a dot showing >the time. This might be OK too... > >I don't have a country mansion but I don't have to buy the cheapest >thing... any suggestions? > >Also, are the archives of this list availabe online? > >Thanks, > >Mike Harding >
