Fellow Shadow Watchers, Why not have an electro-mechanical 'sun tracker' on the roof with an electro-mechanical 'repeater' in the room which could be placed on a wall for easy reading. This could take the shape of a 'hour hand' on a 'dial' with a 1:24 gearing to drive a concentric hand to show minutes. A simple ambient sunshine detector would switch off the tracker when the sun was obscured with a warning light on the dial to indicate this. When the sun re-appearerd the tracker could then switch to 'search' mode to relocate it thus avoiding frantic spuirious indications below.
Digital clocks are cheaper of course but making it work would be a lot of fun ;-) Tony Moss. -