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| why was it decided that all analog clocks in the world should have their hands rotate in the negative angular direction? | ||||
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| it bugs me when ever i see an analog clock, because it seems to be saying that we are traveling negatively through time. | |||||
| - Author's History - 11 March, 2009 | |||||
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D2A says |
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| Eh, arbitrary decisions exist everywhere. I mean, why do electrons have negative charge? Because protons HAD to be positive. I do agree though; there are a lot of things like clocks spinning the "wrong" way that certainly make me tug at my hair, but these aren't exactly things that are easily reformed. |
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Romulo says |
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| check on sundials guys | |||||
| - Author's History - 13 March, 2009 | |||||
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Seth says |
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| so clacks turn the way they do to match sundials? in that case we should change all our coordinate systems to be left-handed. that way clockwise can be positive. |
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poss says |
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| I don't get what you are saying Seth. Half the time time the hand is travelling right. From 3 till 9 it is negative, from 9 till 3 it is positive. |
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| well, the words negative and positive were just made up to represent +/-. Its all just how you view it. Why couldn't time be going backward? There is an infinite negativity. | |||||
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gadget00 says |
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| Actually, time starts from the positive quadrant (right side). What do you mean about time going backwards(negative)? | |||||
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thoughthorizon says |
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| Clocks were created in the Northern hemisphere and go the same way sundials do (ie. deosil, as opposed to widdershins). Hence deosil=clockwise and widdershins=anticlockwise. I don't think that when they created clocks they really considered the angular direction they'd be travelling. Same with compasses I guess :-) |
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