Monty by Jim Meddick for September 12, 2015
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Transcript:
How do you like the new sundial?! Nice, but I think it's about 3 minutes fast... Bam Bam Bam There.
Because the Earth’s orbit is elliptical (and not perfectly circular) the time read on a standard sundial will, over the course of a year, be up to 15 or so minutes fast or slow relative to a clock. Hence complaining that one is a few minutes off is meaningless – as EB-7 should well know.