Since the discovery of time, sundials have fascinated humankind.Sundials enabled people to tell time in older days. Fortunately inmodern times, people now have the luxury of reading time by use ofclocks. Sundials have not lost their luster completely; peoplecontinue to use them in outdoor decor. Follow these steps to chooseand care for a sundial in your outdoor decor.Step 1: Educate yourself on the use of a sundial. There arethree main components of a sundial, the dial plate, dial centre andthe gnomon. The gnomon component casts the shadow onto the sundial,giving indication of time. The dial plate or clock part of thesundial is the face of the sundial where it indicates the hours andthe shadow from the gnomon is cast. Hour lines of the sundial meetat the dial centre component, at the north