acf domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /data/sites/horniman_dev/public/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131Solar time is a bit different from clock time. We use clock time, day to day, based on 24 hours of equal length. However, solar time changes slightly day to day due to the tilt of the earth and its elliptical orbit around the sun. Have a go at finding them all, or cheat a little and use this handy little guide.<\/span><\/p>\n This is just a small slice of the walks around the Horniman. Have an adventure and see what wonders you can find.<\/span><\/p>\n Sundials usually show time by a shadow created by the gnomon.<\/span><\/p>\n The gnomon is the part of the sundial which casts the shadow acting as the clock hand. Sundials are usually delineated to read solar time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Solar time changes slightly from day to day due to the tilt of the earth and its elliptical orbit around the sun, where as clock time which we use on a daily basis in our lives is based on each day having 24 hours of equal length.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The difference between solar time and clock time is called ‘The Equation of Time’.\u00a0 Sundials show solar time so depending on the date you need to add or subtract a few minutes to get clock time.<\/span><\/p>\n During British Summer Time, you need to add one hour to the time shown on the sundial.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Solar time is a bit different from clock time. We use clock time, day to day, based on 24 hours of equal length. However, solar time changes slightly day to day due to the tilt of the earth and its elliptical orbit around the sun. Have a go at finding them all, or cheat a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2574,"parent":144,"menu_order":78,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1688","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horniman.cogdesign.cloud.ec\/b91e9c6102ve369g705c079d3c87d26b\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horniman.cogdesign.cloud.ec\/b91e9c6102ve369g705c079d3c87d26b\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horniman.cogdesign.cloud.ec\/b91e9c6102ve369g705c079d3c87d26b\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horniman.cogdesign.cloud.ec\/b91e9c6102ve369g705c079d3c87d26b\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horniman.cogdesign.cloud.ec\/b91e9c6102ve369g705c079d3c87d26b\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/horniman.cogdesign.cloud.ec\/b91e9c6102ve369g705c079d3c87d26b\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5879,"href":"https:\/\/horniman.cogdesign.cloud.ec\/b91e9c6102ve369g705c079d3c87d26b\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1688\/revisions\/5879"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horniman.cogdesign.cloud.ec\/b91e9c6102ve369g705c079d3c87d26b\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horniman.cogdesign.cloud.ec\/b91e9c6102ve369g705c079d3c87d26b\/wp\/v2\/media\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horniman.cogdesign.cloud.ec\/b91e9c6102ve369g705c079d3c87d26b\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How to Read a Sundial<\/span><\/h3>\n