The "western hemisphere" rubs me the wrong way
from lavander@lemmy.dbzer0.com to showerthoughts@lemmy.world on 23 Feb 16:14
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/64271737

As opposed to the northern/southern hemisphere that has:

• a clear reference point (equators)
• traditionally we don’t model a rotation north/south

Western/eastern hemisphere

• doesn’t have a clear reference (Greenwich?)
• traditionally we model rotation on the north/south axis so western/eastern would depend from the time

#showerthoughts