THE Garden Place Sundial

The Garden Place Sundial is a multiface sundial with seven sundials, including an Analemma dial, engraved in an Art Deco style, which together show the Solar Time, Clock Time, Time of Sunrise and Sunset, the Calendar Date at Noon, solstices & equinoxes, and other astronomical phenomena. The sundial is located in front of the Central Library on the grass lawn in Garden Place, mounted on a granite pillar. The sundial was gifted to the City of Hamilton by the Hamilton Astronomical Society in 1937.

The Equation of Time

The table below, shown on the horizontal dial, shows the corrections required to covert Solar Time to Clock Time, which is New Zealand Standard Time.