Analemmatic dials

Carter Observatory, Wellington (New Zealand)

Carter Observatory is the National Observatory of New Zealand. It is located in the Botanical Gardens of the capital Wellington. Another "Sundial of Human Involvement" is set in front of the planetarium. It looks identical to the one in the botanical garden of Mount Annan. The picture is from the website of Julian Holland.

The dial reads civil time. An analemma instead of the date line corrects for the Equation of Time. A common error in the Southern Hemisphere!
You don't need to make corrections for daylight saving, as the bronze indicators on the granite columns are moved twice a year. I learned these details from the website of Phil Tomlinson.

I found the motto on the website of Norbert Haley (discontinued):
    Temporis filia veritas
or: Truth is the daughter of time
(transl.: Willy Leenders)

The dial commemorates the arrival, 150 years earlier, of John Plimmer in Wellington in 1841. Plimmer (1813-1905) has been called "the Father of Wellington". He was instrumental in the development of Wellington and of New Zealand as a whole.

Riddle: Was the above picture taken in the morning or in the afternoon?

Location: 41.3° S, 174.8° E
Design: Silvio Apponyi (artwork),
     Sundials Australia (Margaret Folkard & John Ward, gnomonics)
Inauguration: ca. 1991