Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night

• nandeEbisu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So you’re saying clockwise can also be called sundialwise?

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  • Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    At least some North American indigenous peoples say something akin to “with the sun”. And I think in yoga terminology they have a similar phrasing, or am I mistaken?

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• sircac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I was answering about the Northern/Southern hemisphere logic of this… and realised that it depends if the sundial is vertical in a wall (facing South in the Northern hemisphere) or horizontal (facing the zenith/sky)… today you can easily find those wall sundials in many monumental buildings (at least these seem to me more common than the others) and the shadow is casted counterclockwise in the Northern hemisphere, so not sure if the clockwise sense was locked by this… also in the Southern hemisphere logic flips completely.

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  • Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    in the Southern hemisphere logic flips completely.

    In the southern hemisphere they think Australia is suitable for human life.

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