As I may have mentioned once before, just look at the satellite dishes
on the houses. They are aimed not far from south. You can get the time
that way, too. Maybe even the Australian Aboriginal people do that
nowadays. By the way, at a BSS meeting a member once showed a (working)
satellite dish to which he had added a sundial. An even better way of
telling the time!
Frank 55N 1W
On 08/03/2015 18:19, Art Krenzel wrote:
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
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> Hi John,
>
> Thanks that is interesting. I have always though about how our
Australian Aboriginals determined time. Do you have any information on
that?
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> Regards,
>
> Roderick Wall.
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