I've been using the excellent satellite earth image server at
http://www.fourmilab.ch
as a non-verbal gestalt sundial.
Display:
Map
From Sun
From Moon
Night side
Coordinates
Latitude:
North
South
Longitude:
East
East
Altitude:
km
Image:
Living Earth
®
Topo map
Clouds
IR clouds
Colour weather
Image size:
pixels
No night
One glance gives one a whole sense of planetary time of day without thinking in terms of time zones, numbers, nations or words.