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- From: whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
- Subject: Re: Period Calendar Wanted
- Reply-To: whheydt@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:29:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.162934.22106@pbhya.PacBell.COM>
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- In article <725767220.AA00000@blkcat.UUCP> Dave.Aronson@p11.f120.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Dave Aronson) writes:
- >jww@evolving.com (John W. Woolley) writeth:
- >
- > JWW> Remember that, no matter the time of year, there are twelve equal hours
- > JWW> of day and twelve of night; so that in winter day hours are much shorter
- > JWW> than night hours.
- >
- >Three questions.
- >
- >1. Are you pulling our legs? If no, proceed to 2....
-
- No--he's not pulling anyone's leg.
-
- >2. This implies that sunrise and sunset are at x:00 AM and x:00 PM respectively.
- > What is x? I would guess 6 since it's halfway. Yes?
-
- '1', actually. Dawn begins the first hour of the day. Really quit
- simple....
-
- >3. Does anyone out there know of any self-adjusting timepieces that would take
- >this stretching and shrinking of hours into account?
-
- Yup. A sundial. It was the development of mechanical clocks that
- changed things--eventually--to an all-hours-are-equal system.
- Remember that most of history is before mechanical clocks.
-
- --Hal
-
- Hal Ravn, Province of the Mists, West Kingdom
- Wilson H. Heydt, Jr., Albany, CA 94706, 510/524-8321 (home)
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