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@GyroPilot GyroPilot released this 08 Nov 05:41

LisaSolstice 1.0 (7 November 2026) tool 419326 Tim O'Connor (bmwcyclist)

The seasons on the Apple Lisa Office System: days to the next solstice or equinox and the next five coming up, the
Earth's orbit and tilt today, where the Sun is overhead now, sunrise and sunset in your town, day and night on a
world map, solstice traditions counted to this year, 25 fun facts, and six pictures from history (P). It opens on
the author's solargraph: six months of the Sun over Cincinnati on film in a pop-can pinhole camera. Solstice history
from Tim and Connie O'Connor's Winter Solstice talk.

LisaTwinClock's clock is built in: S sets the Lisa's clock by hand, N from the network (an ESPFuji ESProFile's
clock, an RS-232 FujiNet's clock or timeapi.io for your town; if the web gives no time it uses the FujiNet's /
ESProFile's own clock and says so). Everything except N works without a network.

Install: copy LisaSolstice from this floppy to your hard disk on the Lisa desktop (Duplicate, then drag the copy).
Its settings (your town, time zone, network source) are kept beside the tool.

Pictures: the solargraph (the author's); Newgrange plan, W. F. Wakeman 1903; Newgrange chamber sunlight, photo by
Dentp, CC BY-SA 4.0; Stonehenge sunset, photo by Jeffrey Pfau, CC BY-SA 3.0 (both via Wikimedia Commons; the Lisa
conversions are shared under the same licences); Serpent Mound postcard, Yule log engraving, 1600s engraving of the
heavens (public domain).

Tested on a Lisa 2/10 (3-4 Nov 2026: every page, the pictures at about 2.2 s each, the clock from an ESProFile running
ESPFuji); the web-clock fallback added since was tested in LisaEm. Source (MIT for the code): github.com/GyroPilot/Apple-LisaSolstice