Tom Scott

The Equation of Time: Clocks Vs Sundials

S4 • E65    Jun 20, 2014    3m
A few centuries ago, the arbiter of "local noon" wasn't the mechanical clock, it was the sundial. The pseudoscientific-sounding "equation of time" is how you convert between the two -- and perhaps not the way you'd expect.

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