On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 1:02:18 PM UTC-6, Gerald Kelleher wrote:

To reduce Watches to the right measure of dayes, or to know how much they goe too fast or too slow in 24. hours.

....and, of course, today, the Equation of Time has absolutely nothing to do with
how much a watch might go too fast or too slow. Only the condition of the watch
controls that.

The Equation of Time instead shows by how much a *sundial* goes too fast or too
slow.

I suspect, with the way you speak of the calendar, you think it should be, as in
this quote, the other way around.

John Savard