Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?
dirkgentle@lemmy.ca 10 months agoI am trying to picture it, but I think the sunwise convention only works in the Northern hemisphere.
Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?
dirkgentle@lemmy.ca 10 months agoI am trying to picture it, but I think the sunwise convention only works in the Northern hemisphere.
Auk@kbin.social 10 months ago
Yep - in the northern hemisphere a sundial shadow will move from west to east in a clockwise fashion; in the southern hemisphere it still goes west to east but does so moving anticlockwise.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And if I’m thinking about this correctly, people between ~20N and ~20S latitudes will have it reverse throughout the year and and sometimes be a straight line.
Wait, it’s all anglo-centric?
EldVrangr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Always has been.
Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 10 months ago
That made me curious, so I tried to find a pre-clock synonym in Indonesian. The best answer I have is by translating “Sunwise”, which became “dr kiri ke kanan” or “from left to right.”
Which make sense, if something is going clockwise around you, that’s what you’d see. No idea if that was a real phrase or an artifact of machine translation, though.