Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?
Auk@kbin.social 1 year agoYep - 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Always has been.
Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 1 year 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.