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Why do Clocks Run Clockwise?
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:32 pm
by db5
Just ran across a book with that title that my son gave for Father's Day several years ago. Ponder this. If clocks ran counter-clockwise they would be running clockwise wouldn't they?
Re: Why do Clocks Run Clockwise?
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:55 pm
by thunderbirdbat
When my son was little he had a wrist watch of the caricature Goofy that ran backwards. He was confused for quite a while since his teacher told him it was the direction his watch hands moved. At least until she saw the way his watch worked then she told him the way the wall clock hands moved.
Re: Why do Clocks Run Clockwise?
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 2:12 pm
by charlese
db5 wrote:Just ran across a book with that title that my son gave for Father's Day several years ago. Ponder this. If clocks ran counter-clockwise they would be running clockwise wouldn't they?
Of course! It's all in a name. Kinda Orwellian!
Re: Why do Clocks Run Clockwise?
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 3:30 pm
by rjent
I always understood that clocks move the direction they do because of the direction the shadow of a sun dial moved. Clocks were invented in the Northern Hemisphere and therefor the clock was made to run like a sun dial to save confusion ....
JMHO
Re: Why do Clocks Run Clockwise?
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 4:55 pm
by everettdavis
They don't always run clockwise though
Everett
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Re: Why do Clocks Run Clockwise?
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 5:43 pm
by dusty
OKAY. I am confused but I am not going to pursue this. I can still tell time and that is all that matters here.
Re: Why do Clocks Run Clockwise?
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 6:00 pm
by ERLover
LCD LED clocks dont run clockwise.
Re: Why do Clocks Run Clockwise?
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 6:26 pm
by db5
ERLover wrote:LCD LED clocks don't
run clockwise.
Yes they do. If you could see all those little mil microns running around in that circuit they are all running clockwise.
Re: Why do Clocks Run Clockwise?
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 7:29 pm
by ERLover
db5 wrote:ERLover wrote:LCD LED clocks don't
run clockwise.
Yes they do. If you could see all those little mil microns running around in that circuit they are all running clockwise.
Didnt know, learned something today, just hope I remember it
Re: Why do Clocks Run Clockwise?
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2016 7:37 pm
by JPG
ERLover wrote:db5 wrote:ERLover wrote:LCD LED clocks don't
run clockwise.
Yes they do.
If you could see all those little mil microns running around in that circuit they are all running clockwise.
Didnt know, learned something today, just hope I remember it
Yeah! Right! Not!
I buy Rjent's explanation.
Since whirlpools rotate reversed in the southern hemisphere, do clocks also?
Oh! and if the sun dials were rotated to 'point' south, the shadow would move 'counter clockwise'.
