Stefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agoWhoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or nightmessage-squaremessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1111arrow-down12
arrow-up1109arrow-down1message-squareWhoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or nightStefan_S_from_H@piefed.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-squareTuuktuuk@piefed.europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up73·10 hours agoClocks were sundials. If you can see the time, it’s not night.
minus-squareprocrastitron@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·edit-29 hours ago100% This. Also, being an evolution of sundials is the reason all analog clocks move their hands in the same direction.
minus-squarenandeEbisu@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 hours agoSo you’re saying clockwise can also be called sundialwise?
minus-squareTuuktuuk@piefed.europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·9 hours ago*Being evolution of sundials located on the northern hemisphere.
minus-squareMidnight Wolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·9 hours agoI present to you, illuminated clocks! crowd gasps MY UNIVERSE IS COLLAPSING the crowd starts screaming and lighting things on fire
minus-squareTuuktuuk@piefed.europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 hours ago…and then they noticed: “Damn, we could have lit everything on fire and seen our clocks in the night time millenia ago!”
minus-squareGathorall@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 hours agoYour sundial still isn’t showing time.
minus-squareTrailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoIt’s showing a time
minus-squaremoody@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoThe lights go out, and I can’t be saved Tides that I tried to swim against
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·9 hours agoHow are the illuminated clocks able to comprehend your presentation?
Clocks were sundials.
If you can see the time, it’s not night.
100% This.
Also, being an evolution of sundials is the reason all analog clocks move their hands in the same direction.
So you’re saying clockwise can also be called sundialwise?
Or just sunwise
*Being evolution of sundials located on the northern hemisphere.
Not all, but most
I present to you, illuminated clocks!
crowd gasps MY UNIVERSE IS COLLAPSING the crowd starts screaming and lighting things on fire
…and then they noticed: “Damn, we could have lit everything on fire and seen our clocks in the night time millenia ago!”
Galaxy brain time
Your sundial still isn’t showing time.
It’s showing a time
Clocks, not sundials
The lights go out, and I can’t be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
How are the illuminated clocks able to comprehend your presentation?
Magic ✨