Tide Clock
What is Tide Clock?
Tide clock is a particularly-designed clock that continues track of the Moon’s apparent movement around the Earth Tide clocks keeps an estimate of the average time between high lunar tides: 12 hours 25 minutes per revolution. The bottom of the tide clock dial is starred “low tide” and the top of the tide clock dial is marked “high tide.
Tide clock have an inherent lead or lag, known as the lunitidal interval that is different at every location, so tidal clocks are set for the time when the local lunar high tide occurs. This is often perplexed because the lead or lag changes throughout the course of the lunar month, as the lunar and solar tides fall into and out of synchronization.
The best time to set the clock is at the new moon or the full moon, which is also when the clock can most unfaithfully indicate the actual combined tide. Along shorelines where both constituent are important, a simple tide clock will always be least undeviating near the quarter moon.
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