Analemmatic dials

"Modern Sunclocks" Company, Kilwinning (Scotland)

Most commercial sundial sites are, in my opinion, not very impressive. The recent designs of this company, however, are worth a detour. This dial, set on a schoolyard in Lafayette (Louisiana, USA) combines vandal resistance with vertical presence and functionality as open-air furniture. Very well done!
The dials of Modern Sunclocks" are 6 m (20 ft), which is a nice size, especially for schoolyards.

Including regular as well as daylight saving time on the dial face might seem a nice solution. This way it doesn't work, though: the hour points should be on one and the same ellipse. Unless the summer and winter halves of the date line were scaled differently. That really would be very smart!

One advantage of shaping the dial face this way is obvious: the analemmatic dial is looking somewhat pinched at this latitude, whereas the date line almost spans the ellipse (see the floor plan alongside). An extra row of hour numbers improves its proportions.

Location: 30.2° N, 92.0° W
Design: Modern Sunclocks (Douglas Hunt)
Inauguration: ?