Ira had been quiet all along because she didn't agree with the general opinion that sundials could be useful now, especially in times of watches and other instruments!

She raised her hand up and answered, "I too don't think that the sun dials can be of much use now.. Who needs to.. or rather who wants to calculate to find the time, when all you have to do is look into a watch? So I feel that it is just better suited to be a piece of decoration.." Else why would they be in museums as part of history, right?