People opens their windows and say bonjour and then they start singing
@elizabethhutt7743
5 жыл бұрын
Exaflare Bahamut 😂😂😂
@chimpinaneckbrace
5 жыл бұрын
And then song birds would come along and help them get dressed.
@tomboz777
5 жыл бұрын
That's only in the poor provinces though.
@interwebtubes
5 жыл бұрын
Exaflare Bahamut definitely in Paris 👍
@gomiladroogies5951
5 жыл бұрын
In Russia the windows open people and say privet
@PMW3
5 жыл бұрын
How did people wake up before the alarm clock? Eventually
@erikk77
5 жыл бұрын
When I'm damn good and ready. Now get off my lawn you kids !
@jimmythekiller8148
5 жыл бұрын
Yes! HI-OOOOOOOOOO!
@lapipesmoker3751
5 жыл бұрын
Great comment. I was thinking the same thing. Just answer the damn question instead of giving us a protracted history of how people understand time. The question simply asked how people could keep a schedule without a device waking them up in the morning.
@magusisrafael
5 жыл бұрын
how did people wake up? they had someone do it for them. ... ... how did that person know when to wake up?!?
@joeltower5964
5 жыл бұрын
@@magusisrafael he drank a lot of water before bed
@michaelmorris4515
5 жыл бұрын
Cats. It still works. There's no snooze button on cat that wants breakfast.
@dynamicworlds1
5 жыл бұрын
Not as reliable if a mouse accidentally feeds your cat itself right before breakfast time.
@TodayIFoundOut
5 жыл бұрын
My cat was the worst at this for 15 years. Then I realized I was the problem all along. I simply stopped feeding her in the mornings and within a month she stopped expecting it in the morning and thus, doesn't wake me up anymore. Should have done that years ago. :-) -Daven
@geoffrogers7590
5 жыл бұрын
Have you heard of a closed door? My cat gets fed when I get up. She does not get to dictate to me when that is because she's not allowed in my bedroom when I'm asleep.
@michaelmorris4515
5 жыл бұрын
@@geoffrogers7590 Have you heard of humor?
@michaelmorris4515
5 жыл бұрын
@@TodayIFoundOut Maybe I'll when I retire I'll follow suit, but for now I'm deliberately taking advantage of her aid in getting me up. I sleep through most other alarms.
@InnocentDoodles
5 жыл бұрын
"Sorry I'm late boss, my knocker upper didn't come." "Yeah yeah, likely story. Now get to work."
@BoonesFarm50
5 жыл бұрын
"Wet-dog-nose-in-face" is my first call to rise, if I manage to "snooz" off the first attempt he comes back with the much more stern and effective "paw-in-groin/bladder". I have yet to experience a third level
@equitime77
5 жыл бұрын
Third level is jump on your chest and toungue up the tip of your nose... No need for a fourth level after that!
@OffRampTourist
4 жыл бұрын
Had a cat whose third level was a paw lightly placed on my eyelid.
@mikmop
2 жыл бұрын
And if you have more than one dog sleeping on the bed, the wake up call is: "Time to rumble" 🐕 woof-woof. And if you don't wake up then, you get trampled in the stampede. And you may also have to clean up pee stains on the blanket, depending on how desperate they are to go.
@BigcatTVGaming
5 жыл бұрын
“Now for a bonus fact” I thought 90% of this video was bonus facts
@catmandenny
4 жыл бұрын
I haven't used an alarm clock since I started living with a cat. She has an amazing sense of when it is time to get her some breakfast and starts nudging me awake.
@whoshotdk
5 жыл бұрын
Now I want to know what "clockwise" and "anti-clockwise" were called before clocks.
@JonsTunes
4 жыл бұрын
🤔 Nice one 👍
@KNR90
4 жыл бұрын
They likely used words completely unrelated to clocks. Clocks existed before modern English was created. By which time the direction a clock moved was relatable en masse
@whoshotdk
4 жыл бұрын
@@KNR90 Makes a lot of sense. I've since learned that they had terms like "sunwise". Was quite surprised to learn "Widdershins" was one of them, meaning "anti-clockwise". It comes from old German, but I'd heard of it from Pratchett's Discworld novels.
@KNR90
4 жыл бұрын
@@whoshotdk I've seen widdershins in those novels but thought he might have made it up.
@txdice2866
4 жыл бұрын
Anti clockwise? You mean counter-clockwise
@parallel4
5 жыл бұрын
"slumber of sleep" Ah yes, I love my slumber of sleep, just like I love my timber of wood and canine of dog.
@khushalijariwala
5 жыл бұрын
😆😆😆 came looking to see who noticed this in the comments section!
@samanjj
5 жыл бұрын
My favourite canines are made of dog!
@DocDoesGamingTV
5 жыл бұрын
Don't forget cuisine of food, it's the second best object of things
@arthurpapikyan4283
5 жыл бұрын
Correct term is “timber of lumber”
@TheGogeta222
5 жыл бұрын
My favourite are the Deutschen of Germans xD
@seanb3516
5 жыл бұрын
I saw an antique alarm clock consisting of a candle with numbers going down the candle stalk. One simply inserted the candle rectally to the correct number of hours, lit the candle, and then went to sleep. This method does not include a 'snooze' option.
@theenzoferrari458
5 жыл бұрын
Oh the snooze is there. Its permanent. You fall asleep in a burning house towards a fiery death. That's snoozing.
@theldraspneumonoultramicro405
5 жыл бұрын
this acually sounds like something people would use in the olden day.
@OldieBugger
5 жыл бұрын
ROFL
@danaphanous
5 жыл бұрын
candles actually were used to mark time--just not rectally lmao
@seanb3516
5 жыл бұрын
@@theenzoferrari458 Sounds cozy. I miss the good ol' days.
@dimracrhamacid1756
5 жыл бұрын
That damn rooster starts at 3 am every day, EVERY DAY!!!
@timmorton8918
4 жыл бұрын
I love the idea of pointing at the sky and saying "you wanna meet around *gestures* here-ish?"
@richardpowell4281
3 жыл бұрын
Bonus Fact: before artificial lighting became common people would sleep in two distinct periods, often waking up in the night for about an hour and then returning to bed. This has even been observed in modern times. If you cut out all artificial lighting in your home after sunset, you're likely I'm time to slip into two distinct sleep periods.
@drummerglenchin
5 жыл бұрын
How about the town crier? “6 O’CLOCK AND ALL IS WELL!”...
@decap112
4 жыл бұрын
"THE TIME IS....VERY LATE"
@awwskit3929
4 жыл бұрын
drummerglenchin 😂
@crreplogle
4 жыл бұрын
“Wakey, wakey...it’s day breaky!”
@AF_1892
3 жыл бұрын
Yo its 6am shut the eff up!
@drummerglenchin
3 жыл бұрын
@@AF_1892 lol
@31oise
5 жыл бұрын
When I was younger I always thought that if they lived in the countryside a rooster would wake them up😂😂
@ericwolf9664
4 жыл бұрын
Most of the time the rooster is several hours late in waking the farmer
@HazySkies
5 жыл бұрын
From the thumbnail, I thought it was going to explain how people wake up before an alarm clock rings. Guess that remains a mystery for me.
@Leikeze
5 жыл бұрын
You've got an internal clock to thank for that.
@equitime77
5 жыл бұрын
@@Leikeze I don't...
@Senzeni
5 жыл бұрын
You will. I suddenly obtained one after I broke my ankle and had to be at physio at 9 every single day. That was the start. Now I don't use an alarm clock and rarely wake up later than 7:30 no matter when I went to bed (well, going to bed at 2 at the latest and rarely enough to survive). Having a cat helps too, but I keep waking up at the same time or even earlier when I'm on vacation, I'm better rested then I guess.
@Senzeni
5 жыл бұрын
@Mango wishes no, the sun is off by two hours. How dares it.
@jonnunn4196
5 жыл бұрын
@Mango wishes Sounds like the sunlight cues line up for you around 7 AM and 9 PM for your location within your timezone. That's a common problem with the timezones shifted so far west from the ideal around 6 AM sunrise / 6 PM sunset near Spring / Fall equinox.
@Nick210
5 жыл бұрын
I'm 30 and i've never needed an alarm, even as a child. Usually i wake up an hour or two before i need to and just keep taking short naps and checking the time.
@thomasturner6980
5 жыл бұрын
Teenagers just casually wake up at 6pm
@seanb3516
5 жыл бұрын
Sure if you mean 6pm.........tomorrow I told my daughter she was lazy because she played too many video games, so she stopped. Now she watches Pewdiepie play them for her.
@ginnyjollykidd
5 жыл бұрын
No, they don't! Only in summertime when the pool opens at 8 a.m. Experience; my sister and I woke up at 7 a.m. To do just that.
@chimpinaneckbrace
5 жыл бұрын
It’s to be expected when they go to sleep at 6am.
@rexsexson5349
5 жыл бұрын
When i was a teen i got up early. I was young and full of energy.
@notafuckinpplperson8233
5 жыл бұрын
they only do that on weekends. Monday-Friday they can sleep through battle ships battling in their rooms.
@creekwatercody4856
5 жыл бұрын
You talked for 7 minutes without answering the initial question. You should be a politician.
@theRealtensigh
5 жыл бұрын
Great point. He described how people created clocks and managed to track hours but not exactly what methods were used to wake people up BEFORE such technology existed.
@Koffeabrown
5 жыл бұрын
Then you should check him out on visualpolitik
@crazy9932
5 жыл бұрын
It was late, but he did say it. It was comunity bells, factory bells, solicitaors.. I mean door knockers..
@mizzyroro
5 жыл бұрын
He even talked about how we got clockwise which had nothing to do with the question.
@cameleonfleuri
4 жыл бұрын
@@theRealtensigh Ya, I noticed that too and ummm, frustrating.
@acetate909
5 жыл бұрын
Circadian rhythms are pretty powerful.
@PatRiot-
5 жыл бұрын
70% of viewers have absolutely no idea what the word circadian means Nor the function of it
@acetate909
5 жыл бұрын
@@PatRiot- Not knowing the definition of a basic human function doesn't mean that it doesn't affect nearly all of us in a very regular way. You're probably correct tho. A lot of people don't know the word.
@alephnulI
5 жыл бұрын
Mine doesn't work well, unfortunately. =( The majority of blind people also have problems with their circadian rhythms.
@safebox36
5 жыл бұрын
Most of the human population have a 25 hour circadian rhythm. So most people would not be waking up at the same time if they relied solely upon it. Having said that, some people have conditions that give them a longer or shorter one so they instinctively sleep longer or shorter to just enough energy / relaxation / whatever the fuck sleep is needed for. Then there's those that can power nap intermittently and feel refreshed enough to carry on.
@acetate909
5 жыл бұрын
@@alephnulI Yes, I've read that about blind people. It makes sense considering the function is closely linked to the lack or presence of light in the retina, a process lacking in many blind people.
@pencilfriendpaperscribbler6032
5 жыл бұрын
watching at 4.50am for no good reason. insomnia and Simon. these days i save the videos for this express purpose. a little science is always a comfort.
@oswinhull4203
5 жыл бұрын
I have found that when I am more exposed to the elements the temperature changes and sunlight govern when I wake up and go to sleep.
@crunchyscorpio9186
5 жыл бұрын
There is also the candle method. Candles of equal thickness that were marked in regular segments so you know how much time had passed when the candle had burned down to the next marker. Also if I remember correctly monks also used waterclocks that released a whistleing sound when emptied... as long as the clock didn't freeze in winter.
@Stogdad17
5 жыл бұрын
How do flat-earthers explain the sun dials shadow in different hemispheres?
@bobby_greene
5 жыл бұрын
Magic
@maevem7226
5 жыл бұрын
they don't
@ethanwagner6418
5 жыл бұрын
They will say the sundial was a mythological technology, like Greek fire, or something.
@TimothyTolle
5 жыл бұрын
They say the sun is like a spotlight shining down at earth, moving across the sky. If you take a flashlight and move it across a piece of paper with stuff on it, you'll see that shadows at the top move clockwise and shadows near the bottom move counterclockwise.
@Stogdad17
5 жыл бұрын
Timothy Tolle, thank you. Of course they do. 🤦♂️
@EpicATrain
5 жыл бұрын
Mr Train asks: Can you do a segment about Simon Whistler in which Simon Whistler talks about himself as if he doesn't know himself but has to present himself to others and state facts and interesting things about himself?
@DaveyAnkersmit
3 жыл бұрын
So much want!
@dasy2k1
5 жыл бұрын
The stick that the knocker up used often also had a hook to turn the municipal gas lamps off, knocker up was a common "side hustle" for a lamplighter
@oslonorway547
5 жыл бұрын
You'd better mention _Window Knockers._ ... Yeah, that used to be a job.
@Dlf212
5 жыл бұрын
and window knocker knockers - who would wake up the knockers who would you up to go your job . . . . . .
@Dirtbag-Hyena
5 жыл бұрын
Who got the window knockers up?? Window knocker getter-uppers??🤔 Then who would get THOSE people up??🤔 And around we go......
@rosieweaselby
5 жыл бұрын
drtbag39 sorry, the whole company is late today because the window knocker slept in/was ill
@FishFind3000
5 жыл бұрын
Dbzlotrfan M probably the second shift would wake up the first shift. And do on
@MrPlayfulOtter
5 жыл бұрын
First job to be replaced by robots. What happened to the window knockers? They learned to code.
@makeminefreedom
5 жыл бұрын
Bathroom, hunger, children, roosters, and light. Alarm clock or not there is no way of escaping the morning.
@jimtaylor294
3 жыл бұрын
Pets too ;-) .
@liquidsleepgames3661
5 жыл бұрын
"How will they know when the bars close" Jokes on you the taverns never closed if you had enough coin.
@SavageDarknessGames
5 жыл бұрын
Eh oh and up he rises, erlay in da mornin!
@AF_1892
3 жыл бұрын
Welcome to Miami
@Dirtbag-Hyena
5 жыл бұрын
Waiting for church bells or someone to knock on your door🤔 Isnt that the chicken or egg dilemma?? How did THESE people get up to ring the bells or knock on doors??
@damenwhelan3236
5 жыл бұрын
It is a chicken egg issue assuming everyone slept at the same time. They didnt. There was night watchmen. Or patrolman. The lamp lighters. The butcher's (used to work at night to slaughter and prepare) and so many other jobs we juat don't even consider need doing Any more because of automation and shift work.
@MrSheckstr
5 жыл бұрын
In that sort of infrastructure (whether it’s military, church, city watch, or even a large enough private residence) you likely had an overnight labor force even if is simply a door guard or porter that would have standing orders to begin the waking up process based on some sort of observation (celestial sightings or predawn twilight) before mechanical clocks you would have water clocks that were simple based on the flow of water out of a fixed opening (essentially an hour glass without glass or sand) But if you lived on the outskirts in some freehold farm, or part of some military patrol, you woke up when the sun woke you up, or the increase of animal noise in response to the sun woke you, or someone bigger than you kicked you awake after they woke up
@jtsavidge
5 жыл бұрын
In some cases, people like religious monks had figured out how to create candles that always took the same amount of time to burn a certain distance. There would always be someone in the monk’s order who would be awake, even during the middle of the night, (or they were supposed to stay awake to be praying,) who would wake the next person when the candle(s) had burned to when their “praying shift” or “on-watch shift” was supposed to end. When it was time for everyone else to wake-up in the morning, whoever was the current person “on-watch“ would likely be the one to ring the bells.
@01SaltyWitch
5 жыл бұрын
@Ross Coe well who the hell laid the egg, then?
@Dirtbag-Hyena
5 жыл бұрын
@@damenwhelan3236 Yea,I didnt think of that. There was the graveyard shift as well. That makes sense👍
@TransitioningBeauty
5 жыл бұрын
The full bladder method got me through boot camp! I used to chug right before bed and wake up around 3-3:30am, take my sweet time getting dressed, brushing my teeth, and washing my face before putting my uniform on under my sweats and by the time it was time to wake up I was good to go and never had to fight over the 5 sinks for 40 people to get ready in 15 minutes
@LeadsTheFallen
5 жыл бұрын
the rooster lol
@The1Blackwatch
5 жыл бұрын
My great grandfather was the last "Knocker-Upper " in the city of Dundee, Scotland. We know this from the discovery of an old newspaper article about him found in my grandfather's possessions after his death.
@kaerevlis8426
5 жыл бұрын
A rudementary alarm clock used in some places was a nail melted into the side of a lit candle, the candle was then placed in a metal dish. After a time the wax would melt away, freeing the nail to clang to the dish. Effectively alerting a person to the passage if time.
@bethroesch2156
5 жыл бұрын
There's no such thing as too much Simon ❤️✌️
@lalaithan
5 жыл бұрын
What if you have run out of Simon videos??
@bethroesch2156
5 жыл бұрын
@@lalaithan 😱NOOOOOOOO!! I don't know how I'd survive 💀😆😆
@bethroesch2156
5 жыл бұрын
@Andro mache I know all of that. I just happen to like Simon. If I really want to know about something, I research it myself. Simon is like ear candy for me ❤️
@lalaithan
5 жыл бұрын
@Andro mache I was joking, to be honest.
@redleader7988
5 жыл бұрын
Simon nimis
@alfredrestivo2713
5 жыл бұрын
Wow Simon! You got a quadriple word score for efficacious, proliferate, mercurial, and impetus. Special mention for the English use of expedient.
@Ranstone
5 жыл бұрын
Also, the human body can wake it'self up on it's own with practice. It's an old hunters trick, and can in my case at least, be as precise as to the nearest half hour. It's mentioned often in older literature, but seems to be a lost art nowadays.
@spencerkemp2817
3 жыл бұрын
Some people even used candles that burned for a certain amount of time, placed on a metal plate and stuck a nail into the candle at the approximate time they needed to be awake. The candle would burn to that point and then drop the nail causing such a noise to rouse whoever needed to be up
@hollyplyler9840
5 жыл бұрын
I don't use one now. I'm pretty aware of my sleep cycle.I just wake up, at 7am. Give or take 20 mins
@ThreeProphets
5 жыл бұрын
Can you do one on how time is precisely kept and measured globally in the modern day?
@pierrecurie
5 жыл бұрын
3:45 I think that's only true sufficiently far up north. Elsewhere, it's seasonal. Slightly north of the equator, during winter, the shadow would be north of the sundial, and move clockwise. During winter, the shadow should be south of the sundial, and move counter clockwise.
@CoasterFish
4 жыл бұрын
I swear you’re the twin brother of Michael Stevens from Vsauce
@DFDuck55
5 жыл бұрын
I haven't owned an alarm clock in over 40 years. I'm a very sound sleeper and never found one that could wake me. I just tell myself before going to sleep what time I need to wake up, and I always wake up usually about 15 minutes before that time.
@wafflemypancakesuponthesun875
5 жыл бұрын
“How did people knew”
@magus104
5 жыл бұрын
actually thats how they say it over there us americans have just been saying it wrong all this time
@navret1707
5 жыл бұрын
Navigation required accurate time pieces to determine longitude. Prior to chronometers sailors sailed either north or south to the desired latitude, as determined by Polaris, and then turned to the appropriate heading.
@waa51797
5 жыл бұрын
Any news on the podcast? I’ve been missing it.
@amazingsupergirl7125
5 жыл бұрын
I live in the country and my two “neighbors “ have roosters that crow at all times during daylight. It’s not like as soon as the sun comes up they start. I don’t own them myself but I’ve only noticed them in early afternoon
@errolmichaelphillips7763
5 жыл бұрын
Birds. They start singing at 4 o'clock on mornings.
@eendjeeendje4342
5 жыл бұрын
Errol Michael Phillips not in winter
@errolmichaelphillips7763
5 жыл бұрын
@@eendjeeendje4342 Sorry. I'm from the tropics.
@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
5 жыл бұрын
This makes a nice alarm clock app...
@johnnyslokes2712
4 жыл бұрын
I'd literally never hear that.
@aaronburratwood.6957
5 жыл бұрын
Damn, someone asked a question I never thought of for an answer I never realized. I love this channel, bringing knowledge to the people. This was a great video.
@AnonRanGER01
5 жыл бұрын
"How Did People Knew"?
@testicularoxide5055
5 жыл бұрын
You knew, they just knowed it... oh know...
@bitfreakazoid
5 жыл бұрын
Bonus fact: An easy way to roughly tell how much longer until sundown, or how long since sunup, is to extend your hand out with your palm facing you. Each finger width is roughly 15 minutes so multiply however many fingers fit between the sun and the horizon by 15.
@Melissa.Garrett
5 жыл бұрын
The simple answer: circadian rhythms. One point: technically, twilight does not occur at both ends of the night as stated in the video. Twilight occurs between day and night; aurora occurs between night and day (I’m waiting for somebody to make a Sleeping Beauty comment, lol).
@xMissPegasusx
5 жыл бұрын
Circadian rhythms yes, but a large part of the population have "night owl" Circadian rhythms, and no matter how used they get to their schedules, their genes will always revert back to try and wake them up later.
@robynn144
5 жыл бұрын
Another great and fascinating video. Thank you, Mr. Whistler.
@niviamaeva
5 жыл бұрын
Without alarm clock, I would sleep 15 Hours straight.
@teresafinch7790
5 жыл бұрын
That's all very well if you live nearer the equator but in the far north it would mean bearley going to bed at all in the summer, and spending most of the winter in bed.
@ditto1958
3 жыл бұрын
Growing up in the 60’s we spent most of our time outside if we weren’t in school. Although we sometimes wore watches, we also just knew what time it was by watching the sun.
@dr.hugog.hackenbush9443
5 жыл бұрын
"When it dark, I sleep. When it light, I wake."
@corujariousa
5 жыл бұрын
I always wake up before the alarm clock goes off. Simple technique: 1) Look at your watch before you go to bed and imprint that image in your memory (see it with closed yes); 2) Tell yourself: I want to wake up at XX:XX time and also imprint that image in your mind. Note: I usually imagine the hands of a clock moving from current time and stopping at the time I want to wake up. It works everytime. You may need some practice but I learned the vivid image and command in your mind will get the job done.
@ThePoketrix
5 жыл бұрын
it's still "knew" they're not fixing it
@laranaarana
5 жыл бұрын
I used to live in the country-side. The neighborhood roosters sang every day at about 5:30 a.m. If that did not wake us up, our Mom made sure we got un in time to go to school!
@toothpastehombre
5 жыл бұрын
But who woke up the Knocker-Ups so they could wake up their clients??
@geoffrogers7590
5 жыл бұрын
The night watchmen probably. There's never a time when nobody is awake.
@swordchaos1181
5 жыл бұрын
That will have to be the Knocker-Up-Knocker-Ups
@Caperhere
3 жыл бұрын
It’s not difficult to train yourself to wake up anytime. When I was younger, I started paying attention to what time it was as the sun moved. Also which direction I was facing. Once you get used to doing that, you’re always aware of it subconsciously. I could, and anyone can tell themselves to wake at a certain time, within five minutes. It’s like awakening and knowing if anyone else is home, or if the house is empty. I got started with the time thing after reading a novel about a boy going blind, and learning to pay attention to his other senses.I think we’ve always known these things, just forgot about them.
@Willy_Tepes
5 жыл бұрын
In a agricultural or hunter-gatherer society, time is not so crucial. No one is expecting you to be there on the dot. The day is easily divided into several parts like "morning", "noon" and such. If you are familiar with the position of north, the time is not hard to estimate within an hour. All people knew which direction north was back then because they paid attention to the world around them and not their devices.
@DjKomca
4 жыл бұрын
I would add that our ancestors percieve time much differently than we, they often (like many societies today) did not consider time as linear progres (as we do), rather they found time cyclic.
@johnlloyd7096
5 жыл бұрын
I also commend you and your team for the quality of research, and obvious amount of time committed to collating, writing, and presenting factual and interesting videos. On subjects in which I am well versed, I have noted your accurate information, sometimes augmenting my own knowledge. The few inaccuracies I have noted are not worth mention. Excellent work ! Many thanks for your efforts, and best wishes for your continued success. J.L. Shank, Salem, OR, USA
@willcress7048
5 жыл бұрын
Dear Simon, YOU ROCK!
@juliaconnell
5 жыл бұрын
oh I know this one - the knocker upers (mind. gutter. out)
@jerotoro2021
5 жыл бұрын
Something tells me that the expression of getting "knocked up" is somehow related to this though.
@sherrynelson1508
5 жыл бұрын
I lived without electricity for three months once many,many years ago. I found myself going to sleep around 8 pm and waking around 5 am without fail. After that I came to believe that without electricity or unnatural lighting such as electric,gas,kerosene or maybe even a natural fire. One will sleep and wake naturally at dusk till pre dawn. All other times in my life even now I am a terrible insomniac !
@thomashughes4859
5 жыл бұрын
That was a really good video! Although midday is one translation of the Latin for meridies, another is in fact, south. Since in the northern hemisphere, above the Tropic of Cancer, the sun will "south" as it passes the "meridian" ... hm ... I live at 22 north latitude, so from June 1 to July 12 (-ish), the sun rises in the northeast, passes the meridian north of us, and then sets northwest of us. It's interesting on the "zenith" days when the sun casts a shadow (the sun will always cast a shadow), but that shadow has no direction. Thanks again for the video! Excellently done!
@4sername
5 жыл бұрын
Have not watched the video, my prediction though is that instead of staying up late they went to bed at a reasonable time That simple
@sashimster3243
5 жыл бұрын
Anthony Swiss particularly useful and simple in areas where night lasts 18 hours
@johnnyslokes2712
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah but how are you actually going to wake up at the time you want?
@GeekOfAllness
4 жыл бұрын
@@johnnyslokes2712 The idea is that most people will fall asleep then wake up a fairly predictable amount of time later, such as 8 hours. If you regularly go to sleep at 8 PM, you'll tend to wake up at 4ish AM. Not everyone has an 8 hour sleep cycle, but those people just need to get to bed a bit earlier or later for the same effect. I have no such luck. I spend the first 3 to 5 hours tossing and turning, then finally start sleeping well about the time the alarm goes off. The only way I could regularly do this without an alarm clock would be to spend like 12 hours in bed every day. People like me would need to rely on others with better internal clocks to wake us up. In modern life, we often stay up until 10 or 11 PM then get up at 4 AM, which is much harder to do without an alarm clock (though I've met a few people who naturally only sleep 3 or 4 hours a night). So our perception that waking up is hard is based on this habit of not getting "enough" sleep for our body's internal clock.
@akaaformentioned2yearoldfi910
5 жыл бұрын
What a great video to procrastinate to before setting my alarm for bed time.
@egoruderico3038
5 жыл бұрын
I grew up in a small tropical town in South America. * Rooster will drive u crazy in the morning. * Crazy amounts of birds will make noise early morning. * Church will ring bells * If u had farmers or bakers in your family they would be awake automatically somehow. * Old people wake up early to go to the bathroom (hopefully they wake up) * At 9am it was really hot (No AC) so if you stayed in your bed you may be cooked Alive.
@timacrow
5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful as always, Simon!
@kk6aw
5 жыл бұрын
I haven’t used an alarm clock for years, even when I was working full time, 5 am my body is screaming to get out of bed, been retired since 1992 and still get out of bed at 5am,
@heyzeuswept2413
4 жыл бұрын
Wedgenut Tanker how old are you?
@CrusaderKnight2000
4 жыл бұрын
@@heyzeuswept2413 Most people retire in their 60's or 70's, so if you add the 28 years that have passed since 1992, likely anywhere in between 88 and 98 years old. That is, assuming he didn't retire a year after 70. Retiring anywhere between 75 to 79 would make him 104 to 108.
@valiroime
5 жыл бұрын
How did people know when to get up (pre alarm clock)? The sun rose above the horizon. There you go. Mystery solved.
@HappyCGM
5 жыл бұрын
But what about all the work that starts before the sun rises? Many jobs have to be done 1-2 hours before the sun comes up. So it’s not quite as simple as waking up with the sun.
@Machtyn
5 жыл бұрын
I only just recently learned about the professional door knockers. I saw an old picture with a lady and her door knocker stick and an appropriate caption. Very curious time they and we live in. Our technology is crazy wild.
@DaveyAnkersmit
3 жыл бұрын
Full blatter user over here. Useful when not at home, camping, not wanting to disturb the family with noisy alarm, etc
@moodberry
5 жыл бұрын
Would have liked for you to expand on "base 60" that you mentioned in passing. I've always wondered why we seem to use lots of "twelves" in our culture (12 months, 12 hours, 12 zodiacs, etc.)
@88happiness
4 жыл бұрын
In one of my first jobs, I somehow managed to magically wake up everyday in time for work without an alarm. I don't know how I did it, but it only worked on weekdays and I couldn't wake up for early appointments on the weekend. Internal clock!
@bethanyhanna9464
5 жыл бұрын
When they had to hit the outhouse, they woke up, got bundled up, and headed outside. 😂
@phyllisdevries5734
5 жыл бұрын
I live in Alaska in the summer, I wake up at 3am and go to bed 11pm. In the winter I wake up at 7am and go to bed around 4pm.
@American-Plague
5 жыл бұрын
That must suck.
@danielray1484
5 жыл бұрын
You can tell what Time it is using your hands. 1 hand = hour Each finger = 15 min Sun/moon goes up 6am/pm (depends on time of year and location). Add up the hands.
@knight73Swe
5 жыл бұрын
I grow up in an old village/manor and there in the 1800 and 1900 they use a gruel bell to messure time the secretery of the manor ringed the bell four times a day when workday start lunch start lunch ended and workday ended
@lorrieruff4402
5 жыл бұрын
One time my husband told me when he was in the army about how they made sure they got up with out an alarm clock would be drinking a full canteen of water. This way they would wake in 6 hours after they slept, to relieve themselves with out using a noisy time clock. Guess it was a good way to wake up, with out letting any unfriendly individuals know your location.
@jessicamilestone3934
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that video, Simon. Really interesting
@ironbob11
3 жыл бұрын
This guy's asking the right questions
@sfkeepay
5 жыл бұрын
“The wonderful slumber of sleep...”? Like poetry...
@TheRealMisterProtocol
5 жыл бұрын
I've always wanted an app for my phone or, hopefully, my smartwatch, which would show the unequal hours of the day and night, as discussed in this video. Unfortunately the only such app I've ever found was for (ugh) Windows phone.
@BlueHooloovoo
5 жыл бұрын
My dog was a good alarm clock. Like clockwork every morning she would hop on the bed and nudge me awake so I could get up to feed her. Pets always know when it's breakfast time and they never sleep in.
@dn07rtc9
5 жыл бұрын
That is a fine looking cup of tea
@TheRealDrJoey
5 жыл бұрын
This was excellent, and extremely interesting. Thanks.
@J03fifaFTW
5 жыл бұрын
Well in my town, we have a town clock that chimes at every hour its probably about 180 years old now
@tdog999100
4 жыл бұрын
Well to actually answer the video question, the bodys natural internal clock, you can literally tell your body to wake you up at a certain time and it will reliably. You will notice this if you have your alarm set to the same time everyday and you wake up just before it rings
@mindburnjw
5 жыл бұрын
Man I love this group of channels
@DoomFinger511
5 жыл бұрын
They left out one important factor. The concept of sleeping for 8 hours at night is only a recent concept. Before around 200 years ago (before the industrial age) people had 2 "sleep shifts". They would sleep for around 4 hours at night, then wake up to read, contemplate, have sexy time, and go to work (mainly farming). Then in the afternoon they would have another round of sleep for about 4 hours. Sleeping that way is actually the natural way. We just force our bodies to adapt to the one shot, 8 hour sleep cycle, due to the highly precise time we live in due to clocks being everywhere.
@eTraxx
5 жыл бұрын
I do not need an alarm clock. EVERY MORNING .. around 6 am I am awakened by my furry alarm clocks .. Tigger and Ms Kitty. No problem. Works all the time.
@StuckInBliss
5 жыл бұрын
I thought this video was gonna explain why I sometimes wake up a single minute before my alarm goes off.
@jerrysinclair9225
3 жыл бұрын
Since AM & PM stand for the Latin words meaning “before midday” and “after midday,” there can be no such thing as 12 AM or 12 PM. Only 12 noon and 12 midnight make any sense in this context.
@AnaMaria-ww4iy
5 жыл бұрын
I love this channel because sometimes I dont even know that I wanted to know something until I see the thumb nail
@AAA-bo1uo
5 жыл бұрын
I have 4 alarms spaced 30m apart and each repeats 5 times every 5 minutes between 6:30am to 7:30am. I recently moved and stayed with my uncle and on the 2nd day he told me to turn it off.. the problem is I forgot I had them on, I used it when I was in university.. I finished university almost 3 years prior to that day. I'm just wondering how many people did I piss off unknowingly.. I did have my own room and never really slept outside. tldr; If the house goes on fire I'd probably die asleep while neighbors are trying to break my door even if a fire alarm is present. The twist here is, if I have something important that I must wake up early for I'd wake up before the last alarm goes off. Probably why I never noticed the other alarms as well. I do know why this happens but the post is already long enough..
@hugonnava
5 жыл бұрын
When I was in Saigon, by 5 AM, there were already people walking around making lots of noises, motorcycles horns honking, it didn't wake me up, I just couldn't go back to sleep.
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