Province of : Limburg
City : Hasselt
Address : Carnegielaan 33
Postal code : 3500
place : Front facade
Photo : Willy Leenders (2009)
Type : Vertical
Remark :
This sundial is designed to show the official time (summertime). Therefore the time figures are 1.39 hours shifted from their position on a sundial showing the local true time (summertime) where the figure 12 would have been in the middle of the table beneath the style. 1.39 hours is indeed the time shift for this location in Hasselt compared to the mean summertime.
To obtain a correct time one should also take the equation of time into account. This is not foreseen on this dial which leads to an error that during spring and summer may vary from -6 minutes up to +6 minutes.
In this case this is not too much important due to the lack of timelines that already reduces the precison of the reading.

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