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Table 1: The equation of time correction-table

sun.gifThe equation of time refers to the irregularity of the natural length of a day as measured on a sundial. This irregularity is caused by the non-circular orbit of the earth spinning around the sun and the tilt of its axis relative to the sun. Combined it gives the composite curve as presented below. In the form of a correction table is the graph below presented in the form of the Full Calendar of Order. With this table one can set a reference clock to the sun. For its practical use day by day with the help of the internet is provided the Tempometer: a PHP- page that, given one's longitude, automatically calculates the true position of the sun and displays it in the form of normal clocktime. Twelve o'clock on the tempometer means that the sun at that time passes the meridian, goes through the south, passes the longitude of the place of the user. The graph below shows the difference the sundial makes with the mean local time of a clock. A positive value means the clock has to be set back so many minutes departing from mean local time in order to read the true of solar time. The curve of this table looks as follows:


The equation of time graphically (source)

Mean (local) time is derived by multiplying one's longitude (see any map or atlas or use this search engine) with 4 adding it up to GMT Worldtime.

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So for instance at longitude 30 East from Greenwich one is 4 times 30 = 120 minutes (two hours) later than Greenwich Worldtime of GMT, Greenwich Mean or local Time (UTC, also called Universal Time).

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West of Greenwich gives the number of minutes earlier than UTC. To have the exact of true time one, as said, then has to add or subtract the minutes according the table of the Full Calendar of Order. Positive values must be subtracted, negative values added. (know also your local zone-time and the timezone table of the Greenwich 2000-site , or click here to see a map and/or an update). One's calculations are proper when 12 o'clock true time shows the noonshadow of the sun exactly north/south. (in other words accords with the 12 hour-indication on a sundial). There is a calculation-helper to set a clock to the sun quickly.


The sun passing the meridian is in the south



The meaning of the colors of the table contained in the Full Calendar of order:

- The white and pink fields constitute the division of the Cakra calendar that serves as a calendar reference of the natural solar order to the cultural timeconsciousness of 7-day weeks on a normal civil calendar

-The beige fields are the normal Cakra weekdays (note that this calendar does not show the 7-days- regular division of a normal calendar).

- The red fields constitute the lunar calendar with at the bottom the old roman numerals for the original count of the months. K means Kalends and is the new moon. N means Nones and is in this concept either the first or the last quarter originally the romans didn't count the second quarter). The I means Ides and indicates the full moon.

- The two yellow and ochre fields indicate the dates on which the Galactic old and new years day take place of having earth the closest to the centre of the galaxy (see The Galactic Order).

Below the table of this Full Calendar of Order there are suggestions given for the use of this composite calendar.

N.B. The table has a shift of phase in the equation of time of 1 day in 25 years.

*: Leaping is for the Cakra calendar done the 21 of dec. so that in a leapyear all indications of the cakracalendar shift for one day after this day.

 

Go to the Equation of Time correction table      
presented as the Full Calendar of Order      

or go the page about the Cakra Calendar      
 

  

Links

- Roman Calendar Instructions & Explanations

- Timezone table of the Greenwich 2000-site

- The Galactic Order: everything about our timing to the center of the galaxy.

- The Lunar Order: about our timing to the moon.

- Tempometer: set a clock to the sun

- Wikipedia: equation of Time

- Variation in the equation of Time

- Equation of Time: figures


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