When I was stationed in England during the early 1970's, I had a problem orienting myself when I first got out of the subway. So I developed a method whereby I aimed the hour hand of my watch at the sun and divided the arc between the hour hand and 12 o'clock into two equal parts. I then drew an imaginary line from the center of the watch to the center of that arc and that line, when extended, pointed to the South. It was crude but quick and I did not need any other items to make it work. Of course, access to the sun was a bit of a problem in England at times. I offer this information as a modern day corollary to the aboriginal sundial on his hand.
Art Krenzel > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Telling time in outback Queensland in the early 20th > century (rodwall1234) > 2. Re: Telling time in outback Queensland in the early 20th > century (John Pickard) > 3. RE: Telling time in outback Queensland in the early 20th > century (Schechner, Sara) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 08 Mar 2015 09:56:10 +1100 > From: rodwall1234 <[email protected]> > To: John Pickard <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Subject: Re: Telling time in outback Queensland in the early 20th > century > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hi John, > > Thanks that is interesting. I have always though about how our Australian > Aboriginals determined time. Do you have any information on that? > > Regards, > > Roderick Wall. >
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