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constructing a sundial for true clocktime

Permalink Submitted by Anonymous on August 29, 2011

I'd like to construct an analemmatic sundial which gives true clock time for my location. Is this possible? I wondered if it is possible to adjust the position of the points where the gnomon goes to account for the equation of time differences each day?

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