Designs
1: The
Cakra (stardate) Tempometer
click
anywhere for a description.*
This
is how the clock moves:
red star: the hands
(earthspin)
yellow star: the celestial sky
(one turn a year).
Click
for more detail of the scale and a wristwatch-model of
the meter the
original drawing.
See
also the
first
running running tempometer on the internet in
function.
It goes with a form with which one, with one's
longitude filled in, can set the Tempometer to the
time of one's local sun (includes a webmaster's
download).
See
also the software-design
for the Tempometer making for a system clock turned
into a sundial.
See
also the Wiki-page for the Tempometer
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Stardate
(general information):
The
design concerns a concept of time-management
characterized by reducing the complexity of standard
management by means of taking a common denominator to all
possible concepts of cultural time. In fact the meter is
an astrarium, a clock that can be programmed by means of
a computer, showing the relative positions of the
heavenly objects next to which on a digital display in
principle any concept of cultural time can be shown. The
basic idea that led to the design is the need for clarity
in favor of a worldconcept of timeconsciousness. Although
at first instance if might be difficult to read the time
from the meter only to the old conditionings of
clocktime, with little practice it will soon be clear
that loyalty to the objective position of the earth
relative to the sun and the stars is a natural,
unequivocal and simple affair.
The
secret of the meter lies in the scale that represents the
order of the day in 24 hours as well as the order of the
year in 12 months, 24 15-day periods and 6 days to
indicate a two-month season. This way there is only one
division of time for as well the clock as the calendar,
at the same time having the differentiation of the clock
improved dramatically. The first gives the advantage of
matching weekdays with dates ending the confusion of a
double division of dates and weekdays, while secondly ,
where the old clock could only differentiate within a
period of twelve hours, the stardatetimer differentiates
for the period of a whole calendaryear. Thus only after
one year having the same position of the clock repeated,
to each moment within the period of a year a unique time
identity is created without running into multiple
scaling. The movement of the clock with that is double:
the hands move clockwise (small hand one turn a day on a
24 hour scale) while the scale makes one turn left during
a year. This is represented by the animated logo of the
The Order: the yellow star symbolises the celestial sky
with the yellow star moving left while the earth-spin of
the hands moves right symbolised by the red
star.The
digital display is meant for the purpose of adaptation to
the current system of timemanagement . The meter,
offering with that a clear choice of timemodes to compare
with the "cakra " representation of the astrarium
scale, safeguards any consciousness of time be it natural
or cultural. The basic idea to the consciousness is that
to have the chance to compare ones favorite mode of time
with the astrarium representation, can rescue the
individual person and possibly mankind as a whole from
the unconscious of onesided (and egotistically opposing)
concepts of timeconditioning. Cakra is sanskrit
for wheel or disc. The name refers to the rotating
celestial sky. Because the scale shows stardays and not
the familiar suntimedays the meter is called stardate.
The stardate-calendar is transposed to a
sundate-(cakra-)calendar (see tables)
and displayed in the lower digital display set by the
timemode calendar.*
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Tempometer:
The
stardate-timer is called tempometer because it measures
the tempo of the spin of the celestial sky (the
scale-disc) relative to the earth (small hand) and the
sun (the noonposition is indicated by the middle yellow
triangle ). Once every 70 years the celestial sky,
because of the precession of the equinox, is shifted for
one starday. This is indicated under birthday (the meter
can be reprogrammed to be fixed on the celestial sky in a
mode called eternal, but that gives the disadvantage of
having the seasons shifting throughout the calendaryear,
a practice abolished by gregorian
reform.)*
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The
stardate disc:
The
stardate scale-disc shows the celestial sky to which the
division of the year equals that of the day. It shows 366
stardays divided in six two-month seasons of sixty days
(see for precession at 2). Each season has a separate
starday to begin with.The middle yellow triangle normally
indicating on the stripes is one day before that
positioned in between the stripes (original
drawing
only). One season consisting of four fifteenday-periods
makes eight weeks with four extra '15th-days'.Each day
the disc with the yelow star makes one step to the left
making one turn a year as in the animated logo of The
Order
to indicate the progress of the sun relative to the stars
(the stardate). Transposing the stardate division of 366
days to a sundate division one attains to a (cakra
) sundate
calendar
only differing from the stardate calendar by missing the
midsummer starday that indicates the beginning of the
fourth season (see tables).
This is displayed in the lower digital display in the
timemode calendar (overriding the calendar of the
timemode set) and cakratime.*
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The
sun-ring:
The
position of the sun is indicated by four triangles on the
sun-ring. The middle yellow triangle indicates the
position of the sun at noon, while the other two yellow
triangles indicate the time of sun-rise and sun-set. The
black triangle indicates the middle of the night. Under
the time-mode moon the noonposition of the the sun is
indicated by the middle stripe (20)
only, while the triangles are then used for indicating
the position of the moon. The moonfase is separately
indicated by 21.*
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Scheme-ring:
The
outer scheme-ring is to indicate at what (sun-)time of
the day one wants to wake up, exercise, prepare
breakfast, take breakfast, go to work, take a break,
etc.(here indicated by green dots). To each position a
separate alarm can be set.*
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The small hand:
The
small hand moving to the right like the red star in the
animated logo of The Order
shows the position of the earth from the point of view of
one's own longitude, indicating on scale the star-hours
of a star-day. The small hand makes one turn a day on the
24-hour scale.This is done in real sidereal
time.*
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The
big hand:
The big
hand shows the progress of star-hours in a star-day. On
scale this is indicated in 48
star-minutes.*
8
The
thin hand:
The
thin hand shows the course of a star-minute consisting of
48 star-seconds.*
9
The
seasons:
The
universally applicable indications of the two-month
seasons around the scale mean: After the
Southern solstice, Upward along the
Equinox,Before the Northern
solstice, After the Northern solstice,
Downward along the Equinox, and Before
the Southern solstice. Depending on the latitude
locally these seasons can be labeled early summer, late
summer,autumn, early winter, late winter and
spring.*
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Upper
digital display:
Above
the scale there is a digital display where the different
types of time (the timemodes) are shown.*
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Lower
digital display:
Below
the scale there is a second digital display where the
different calendars are shown varying with the different
types of time. D and M indicate the gregorian days and
months. Leapdays show an L when the date-disc is stopped
one day for leaping once in four years. To the logic of
the meter leaping is done at the end of the
(astronomical) year (22 dec) while the so called
centurionrule for leapcorrection is regarded more
regularly by skipping one leapyear every 128 years
counting from the year zero (provided the maintaining of
the christian counting of years. Of course also this can
be rationalized by setting the year zero to a certain
position of the earth to the celestial sky in regard of
the regularity of the precession). Options of calendar-
and time-management can be reprogrammed at will to suit
any (sub-)cultural preference for a certain meter-program
(for this a socket to connect to a computer is conceived
in the hardware of the meter).
The
indications for the cakracalendar are: F.D. 1-24 to
indicate which 15-day period one is in, while the extra 5
days for the cakra -seasons (following F.D. 4, 8,
16, 20 and 24) are indicated with the symbols of the
season (except for AN). See tables
for a listing of the cakracalendar relative to the
gregorian calendar.*
12
Settings button:
With
this button a menu is shown offering a choice of settings
needed to set the timer proper by hand as far as a lack
of radiographic automatic setting
necessitates.*
13
Display
window:
The
display window shows what is demanded by the buttons
above it. It is controlled by the buttons select, set and
adjust.The display showing the settings offers the date
(usually automatic), the standard indication of time
(also automatic), eastern/western longitude and
northern/southern latitude (with G.P.S. technology also
automatic). The factual timereference for the meter is
set under the timemode worldtime being GMT
wintertime.*
14
Select
button:
With
the button select an item from the menu shown in the
display window can be selected.*
15
Set
button:
With
the button set a chosen and eventually adjusted item can
be put in function.*
16
Adjust
buttons:
With
the buttons + and - the chosen item can be adjusted in
some cases.*
17
Rotations
button:
With
the button rotations the window shows the rotations menu
by means of which the meter can be rotated several ways
to have another view of
preference:
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- Rotation
special will fix the scheme
settings to the disc.
- Rotation
special-set will turn
the scheme-setting in any position
wanted.
- Rotation
night will turn the meter
upside down to have midnight indicated by a
black triangle at the top.
- With
the indication of day the meter
can be put in the normal position again
showing the stardate by means of the middle
yellow triangle.
- Sidereal
shows the position of the disc in terms of a
normal clock indicating true sidereal time.
Number 24 will be fixed in the upper-middle
position, while the indications of the sun
and dayscheme will shift day by
day.
- With
whole hour the meter will be
fixed in the upper middle with the hour
running. Practically this means that the big
hand will be fixed pointing upwards, with all
the other indications shifting to
time.
- With
turn the meter can be rotated
in any position favored, e.g. to indicate
one's own date of birth.
- With
the setting of
automatic, the meter
will automatically turn at sunset and
sunrise.
- With
birthday, the meter will bring
up the stardate that indicates the middle of
the milky-way. This is needed to take the
precession of the equinox into account
shifting every seventy years with one
starday.
- With
twilight the meter can be set
indicating middle upper either sunrise(M) or
sunset(E). To each rotation the meter will
automatically match up the alarmsetting
already fixed. *
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Time
mode button:
With
the button time mode, the digital account of time can be
set:
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- Local
time, will interpret the position of
the meter in terms of mean local time with
the gregorian calendar.
- World-time
will give GMT excluding summertime as the
standard reference of measurement for all
places on earth.
- True
time will give digitally the time of
the sun along with he gregorian calendar. In
the picture an example is shown how the
different settings match with an indication
of true time (TT) and true sidereal time on
the meter.
- Cakra
time will show digitally true
sidereal time as indicated on the meter.
Because of the slight difference between the
scaling on the meter and the 24-division by
the hands the match between cakra
meter-time and the digital indication will
show hardly noticeable deviations. The
division of the year in fifteen-day periods
will be shown on the lower display:
the
cakracalendar.The
15th day will be indicated with FD, the extra
day for the season with the symbols of the
season and the leapday with an L.
- Zone-time
will give standardtime including summertime
on the digital display with the gregorian
calendar.
- Star
time will give on display the mean of
startime with the gregorian
calendar.
- Arabic
will digitally show true time fixed on the
setting sun with number twelve. Also on the
lower display the mooncalender will be
shown.
- Kâla
will give another division in minutes
and seconds (75 ksana -sec. /30
laghu -min.) to a normal division of
24 hours (muhurta's.).This includes on
the lower display a mooncalendar.
- Chrono
will turn the digital display into a
chronometer to be controlled by the buttons
select, set and adjust.
- With
calendar it is possible to
override the regular display of another
calendar by means of the
cakracalendar.
- Moon
will show the position of the moon by means
of the indications normally used for the
sun,while the disc will keep its position so
that the sun will be respected as before but
indicated by the upper stripe
(nr
20)
and the eventual schemesetting
only.*
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19
Alarm/set
button
With
this button the menu for setting the dayscheme is
displayed to which each separate setting an alarm can be
set:
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-
- The
indication sun m/n/e makes it
possible to set an alarm to sunrise, noon or
sunset separately or in combination (m, n, e,
mn, me, ne, mne, none).
- With
standard the settings of the
dayscheme can be fixed on standardtime
instead of the regular
truetimefixation.*
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20
Stripe
This
little stripe is needed to indicate the middle with
certain rotations of the meter.*
21
Moonfase
indicator
This
indicator shows the fases of the moon and cannot be
manipulated except for entering the wrong data under
settings. An eclipse of the moon will result in a dark
window of the indicator (solar eclipses are not indicated
by the meter as they are dominant enough by
themselves).*
Anyone
interested in this design for the sake of publishing or
manufacturing is kindly requested to contact The order:
.(please
also consult about
the contributor
at the infopage)*
