Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise?

[Atheist-Lite]

The arrow of time points both ways. The past and the future are both real and scientists found they both reside in the same brain region I read. Why do clocks run clockwise? I mean they could be built to go both ways and still tell the time in keeping with the accepted course of events.

[Geoff]

The arrow of time points both ways. The past and the future are both real and scientists found they both reside in the same brain region I read. Why do clocks run clockwise? I mean they could be built to go both ways and still tell the time in keeping with the accepted course of events.

Because they "evolved" from sundials (and were invented in the Northern hemisphere)?

[Animavore]

Indeed. And you can buy clocks that go the other way. Why there's one in one of the local pubs in Skerries. Though I suspect it's to confuse drunk people

[Atheist-Lite]

Indeed. And you can buy clocks that go the other way. Why there's one in one of the local pubs in Skerries. Though I suspect it's to confuse drunk people

That doesn't explain anything. The sun and the earth rotate but the universe they rotate in doesn't have a top and and bottom.

[egbert]

Only in the Northern Hemisphere...

[Geoff]

Only in the Northern Hemisphere...

err, yeah, which is why I said: "...and were invented in the Northern hemisphere."

[Atheist-Lite]

Only in the Northern Hemisphere...

err, yeah, which is why I said: "...and were invented in the Northern hemisphere."

That is just moving the goal posts.

[Tigger]

Only in the Northern Hemisphere...

err, yeah, which is why I said: "...and were invented in the Northern hemisphere."

That is just moving the goal posts.

Which way?

[Geoff]

Only in the Northern Hemisphere...

err, yeah, which is why I said: "...and were invented in the Northern hemisphere."

That is just moving the goal posts.

Which way?

South

[Xamonas Chegwé]

They sort of run into puddles, don't they?

[cowiz]

Sundials

[Loki]

Early on there were clockwise clocks and anticlockwise clocks. Eventually clockwise became ubiquitous, much like VHS outcompeted betamax.

Some of the early anticlockwise clocks are still around, this one is in some church in europe somewhere.

[Atheist-Lite]

Early on there were clockwise clocks and anticlockwise clocks. Eventually clockwise became ubiquitous, much like VHS outcompeted betamax.

Some of the early anticlockwise clocks are still around, this one is in some church in europe somewhere.

That explains how it happenend, quite possibly, but says nothing about why.

[Tero]

Many things go clockwise. For a right handed person, the natural way to turn screws or other similar devices (wheels) is clockwise.

[Atheist-Lite]

Many things go clockwise. For a right handed person, the natural way to turn screws or other similar devices (wheels) is clockwise.

Being left handed I'll take your word for that.