Sundials and Latitude

[sirjaysalonso]

Wonderfully explained!!! Thank you very much for posting this!!!

[iheartldn]

excellent video

[krishields]

Wow... great vid... this information is quite useful. Thank you

[goldfree2]

It is a very educative piece of information. School going children around the world need to know, understand and explain this important concept not only to friends but their families as well. I now believe that internet has brought more infomation which was hidden. I for one, am in Norway where I am getting suprised as to why the sun does not set so far as it happens where I come from in Africa. to be frank, Here in Norway I sleep by the watch and not by the light. Thank you for the news.

[jj313]

Does the time of year come into play?

[metamaterial]

Only twice a year, at the equinoxes where they're hard to read because the whole dial face is in the shadow of the disc's edge.

[ChaoMystero]

wait dose this mean that sundails on the equator have to be standing virtical? whao kinda like a gaint wall clock

[metamaterial]

It's one of the best ways to design one there. The video mentions Ecuador-- it turns out, that place has just this sort of sundial in many places. They're traditional _and_ a tourist photo-op!

[twilight41798]

wow thx for teaching me

[bratsgirl1997]

wow !! thanx ! we have to make sundile in our school so now u help me alot

[AlcoholicAvenger]

Nicely done, it solved a lot of my questions. Good job!

[mat2864]

good jod dude

[pablos511]

nice

[noonmoonmoon]

thanks . i believe Arabs were the first who invented the sundial and the 1st who invented the watch.

[buttfudge666]

o my god,i never knew....learning IS fun,Thanks!

[tukm]

nice things to learn about :D

[QDJMan]

Wow! Thanks, Bro! Very cool and useful. But any ideas about how to know what time it is on a cloudy day (without watches, etc.)?

Peace,

- QDJ

[QDJMan]

...or at nighttime...