(urth) Sundial with "multitudinous faces"?

[Gwern Branwen]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Son of Witz
<Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org> wrote:
> I don't know, I think the description could fit, in that each face DOES give
> a different time, in that the each have a specific time range. Each has some
> patch of hours.

It occurred to me that the sundials probably date back to Urth's
interstellar empire if not earlier. Maybe they tell times on different
*worlds*.

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