10-02-2018, 09:36 AM
When I said 10:00 o'clock I wasn't referring to clocks at all except to make it easier to refer to the position to modern viewers so they can find the start marker at a glance.
I don't think of them as 10:00 o'clock. It's just easier, when talking to someone else who can't see your finger pointing, to say, "Look at the fancy little marker at 10:00 o'clock" (meaning the position, not the time).
The comment about sundials was completely unrelated to my reference to 10:00 o'clock because the sundial reference was a reference to time, whereas the 10:00 o'clock reference was to position.
I don't think of them as 10:00 o'clock. It's just easier, when talking to someone else who can't see your finger pointing, to say, "Look at the fancy little marker at 10:00 o'clock" (meaning the position, not the time).
The comment about sundials was completely unrelated to my reference to 10:00 o'clock because the sundial reference was a reference to time, whereas the 10:00 o'clock reference was to position.