Address: Bēnes street 2
The Sun clock has a form of post horn and can be seen in the coat of arms of Auce municipality surrounded by musical notes, the first beats of which are taken from the county song “Nice life in Vecauce”.
The foundation encloses the coats of arms of the cooperation partners of our municipality.
The sun clock is a specific mechanism reckoning the passage of time by using visual movement of the Sun (and its shadow) caused by the Earth rotation during the day. The form and the location of the sun clock is created in such a way as to tell the time in sunny weather in accordance with the astrological chart. The time is shown by the shadow cast by a slanting obelisk on the hour lines. The hour lines which stand scattered show the summer time of our time zone. During winter one hour should be subtracted. The scientific name of the device casting the slanting shadow is a gnomon and it is not only facing north but also indicates the Polar star. In order to tell the time, the shadow of gnomon should be watched. The hour line (oblique cylinders) to which the gnomon points is the particular hour of the day (depending on context – just was or will be in a moment). The sun clock was opened 25.07.2015 during the XX Auce municipality festival.
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