A complete waste of time?

[slowmotion]

Reminds me of Viv Stanshall's Sir Henry at Rawlinson End:

"Hubert was unusual. In his adolescence, during the summer, in a northerly direction parallel to the Earthly axis, he would throw himself naked onto the lawn, and with that loathsome bluey Roman clock face tattooed about his private parts, think about Jean Harlow very hard, and from the shadow cast, tell the time with remarkable accuracy.
"Look! No hands, Aunty!" he would screech.
In the winter, he tried with birthday candles stuck in the end: was hours slow, and Henry told him to put a sock on the sun-dial bit."

Ah, Old Scrotum, The Wrinkled Retainer. A great film.

 

[mudsticks]

Hover fly has just spent the afternoon working out a table showing how long his shadow should be, from the height of the sun and his own height, for various times of day, 2 metres underlined in red.

This is definitely approved activity.

We have spent an evening measuring the height of each others ears, and head circumference to record in the lock down diary.

One day, historians will find all this stuff fascinating

 

[Deleted member 26715]

We got plenty I will have you know

YOu keep it well hidden or do you only bring it out when there's none of those pesky Ingunlangers around

 

[welsh dragon]

YOu keep it well hidden or do you only bring it out when there's none of those pesky Ingunlangers around

We Endeavour to keep it to ourselves. We don't want outsiders knowing about it.

 

[mudsticks]

We Endeavour to keep it to ourselves. We don't want outsiders knowing about it.

I've suffered sunburn in Wales on multiple occasions.

But I'm happy for folks to keep thinking it always rains there, if it means the place stays quieter

 

[Julia9054]

Been experimenting with “best place to park my bike“ shadow photography. More difficult than it looks. My best effort so far but will keep trying as not really happy with this one.
I‘m very bored too!

 

[Levo-Lon]

Sat in the car at M&S, time seems to have stood still....

 

[Hover Fly]

Impressive. What date and location did he work it out for?

Home latitude, sun angle from timeanddate.com, times from 9:30 to 18:00 at 15 minute intervals, dates daily until summer solstice. There is a lot of repetition so it wasn’t that onerous.

 

[Hover Fly]

Has he confirmed his theory by experiment?

Yes. The difficult part is getting the next person in the queue to stand on just the right line, from the sun to my head to their feet.

 

[classic33]

11:00 until 13:00 will be the shortest hours

Is it set to BST or UTC?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

11:00 until 13:00 will be the shortest hours

Is it set to BST or UTC?

You will find all hours equally 60 minutes.

 

[slowmotion]

I sat down with a calculator and estimated that if I turned up the speed dial on my pillar drill to above about 8000 rpm, I would probably get large chunks of cast iron pulley shrapnel embedded in my brain.

 

[MichaelW2]

Without sun you may have to resort to the human clock candle.

 

[classic33]

Without sun you may have to resort to the human clock candle.

That might be painful!

Body clock runs at 25 hours, he'd end up losing an hour a day.