Time to garden Sundials are the world's most ancient clocks -
they've been around for thousands of years. It's said that these
timepieces tell the most accurate time. If your watch stops,
your sundial, if properly set up, can give you a more exact time
than the local downtown clock. But you don't have to buy a
sundial just for its functionality. They can also be purely
decorative, and make beautiful additions to your garden decor,
bringing back memories of sweet English gardens and wonderfully
sunny days. A sundial is a solar clock with a round face, mostly
mounted on a pillar, which has a raised arm called a gnomon that
casts a shadow on numbers that circle the disk. As the sun moves
across the sky throughout the day, the gnomon's shadow moves
with it and marks off what time it is extremely accurately. The
sundial tells time by the sun's noon position in the sky, if
it's positioned properly. Sundials were first seen in Egypt,
where they were mounted on obelisks. Since then, many cultures
over thousands of ye