[bwi4]

You gotta open the window to find out how hot it is. After noon, stand facing West and see how many hand-widths between the horizon and the sun… each hand-width is an hour until sunset. Source: Boy Scouts

[genewitch]

at the extreme risk of being put on a list, what is the standard boyscout hand-width?

[mcv]

That depends on the age of the boy scout, of course. But so does arm length.

[samstave]

I have too many Monty Python jokes in mind for HN's taste

[zamnos]

Given that the Boy Scouts of America kicked off the modern scouting movement in 1910, the answer to African or European, is American.