11-9-2010

2-9-2010
Originally uploaded by cspatrick

We took this photo of a sundial on the side of a building on one of our walks. It was actually five o'clock by our watch. We could understand why it was off by one hour, but not by two. Roger checked it out later and discovered that France should really be at GMT instead of GMT +1 - that is, it should be in the same time zone as England. Instead, France chose to be in the same time zone as most of the rest of central Europe. And isn't that an interesting perspective - that the sundial, being on "solar time" is "off" by two hours rather than that our time is off by two hours. Hmm - such a egocentric view!