Hi Doug I infered wrongly. I assumed that you must have had a complaint about a single DLS timescale since you have this policy. I apologize. The photograph of the Lousiana school analemmatic is so small that it is impossible for me to read the date line. I can imagine how it could function correctly if your date line were actually two different date lines superimposed on each other. One date line would have the dates of Standard Time and the other (the shorter one) would have the dates of Daylight Savings Time. Is this how your sundials are drawn? Would it be possible to see a sample drawing clearly showing the date line and both timescales?
> difficulty', it is not our policy to provide single-ring analemmatic plans > to any countries which use Daylight-Saving Time - as doing so could have a > significant detrimental effect on our business reputation, so we only sell > plans for one-ring dials to places which remain on Standard time all year. > Sorry for the mixup, I'm just trying to understand how your sundials work. (Frans, what's your URL so I can see what Doug is talking about?) John John L. Carmichael Jr. Sundial Sculptures 925 E. Foothills Dr. Tucson Arizona 85718 USA Tel: 520-696-1709 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr. D. Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 11:34 AM Subject: Re: Seeking any sundial enthusiasts in Turkey, (Istanbul area) > > On Tue 3 Sep 2002 (08:28:39), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > From my limited knowledge of analemmatics, I think this design will not > > function correctly because if you change the size of the ellipse, you > > must also change the size of the dateline. This could explain why > > you've had complaints about Daylight Savings markings. > > > > The only way you could show both Standard and Daylight Saving would be > > to have removable numerals that use the same ellipse that you change > > twice a year. (But even then it won't show Standard or Daylight Saving > > unless corrected for EOT). > > > > It would be a shame to limit your sales market to those areas that only > > have Standard Time because you be abandoning 95% of your potential > > customers. > > > Thanks for your quick reply, John - but I don't see how you could possibly > infer from my message that we get 'complaints', or lose 95% of our market! > > In the almost 20 years that we have been running this business (comprising > many tens of thousands of customers worldwide), we have NEVER received any > form of complaint that our double-ring "Sunclock" is in any way inaccurate > at telling correct clock time - either Standard or Daylight-Saving, unless > some customer has not followed our specific measurements and instructions. > > Please note our layout is NOT just a 'traditional analemmatic', having two > Hour-marker rings based around a normal Date-scale. BOTH its double-ring, > AND the Date-scale are 'modified' so as to effectively create layouts that > accurately tell clock time at any time of day, or year - and automatically > change-over from indicating Standard to/from Daylight-Saving time, without > needing a person to add or subtract an hour. Its main advantage (over the > conventional analemmatics), is that it will 'track' a person's shadow in a > much better way throughout the year. Frans Maes (an acknowledged 'expert' > on analemmatic dials) has called our version "very smart", and illustrates > an example on his own Web-site. You have simply assumed that we have just > added another ring to a traditional layout, which would obviously not work > correctly - and I request your 'apology', for the hasty comments you made. > In addition to Copyright, we hold the 'Design Right', (similar to but more > flexible than a patent) on the layout of our novel double-ring "Sunclock". > > Just to clarify - we ONLY provide 'double-ring' layouts to countries which > HAVE Daylight-Saving, and 'single-ring' layouts to countries which do NOT. > In the case of Turkey (which does use DST), it is not our policy to supply > a 'single-ring' layout - even if a customer specifically asks us to do so! > We could obviously very easily supply traditional layouts if we wanted to, > but we leave such one-ring analemmatics to be supplied by other designers. > > Therefore the only customers which we might 'lose' are those who prefer to > have a single-ring (perhaps due to cost considerations), in locations that > use Daylight-Saving time - but that is a small loss when compared with the > advantages of selling accurate double-ring "Sunclocks" in those locations, > because every layout automatically becomes its own 'advertisement' for us. > If we sold 'single-ring' plans to DST areas, then those would not function > as effectively as our 'double-ring' version - which is why we don't do it, > since that is what could perhaps damage our worldwide business reputation. > > Douglas Hunt, (Proprietor). > > -- > > "MODERN SUNCLOCKS" - 'Human Sundials', using YOUR OWN SHADOW to tell time. > > Looking for a useful, decorative, yet UNIQUE feature ? - you've found it ! > For further details and photographs, see our Website at: www.sunclocks.com > > Mail Address: 1 Love Street, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, KA13 7LQ, UK. > Tel & Fax (UK): 01294 552250. International Tel & Fax: + 44 1294 552250. > Send E-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > - > -
