Was there an alternative adjective to “clockwise” other than “the rotation you take around left hand”?

Also, how did all watch companies around the world agree on what the direction of “clockwise” is?

  • CheezyWeezle@lemm.ee
    62·
    1 year ago

    Well, clocks are just mechanical sundials. Before clockwise, there was sunwise (or deosil), and clocks’ movements are based off of the movement of a shadow across a sundial.

    • Thann@lemmy.mlEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      does that mean that “clockwise” in the southern hemisphere is backwards?

      • aesopjah@lemm.ee
        011·
        1 year ago

        No, because the earth is still rotating the same direction in the southern hemisphere

          • aesopjah@lemm.ee
            42·
            1 year ago

            Well well, learn something new everyday.

            Pretty weird to think about. And about them having to either face their relevant poles or the equator for them to work equivalently

          • Swissarmywife@slrpnk.net
            1·
            1 year ago

            Northern sundials (both vertically mounted and horizontal versions) need to be pointed North, whereas Southern sundials need to be pointed South. The article is stating that Southern horizontal versions can be mounted vertically in the Nothern hemisphere but must be pointed South. I hope that helps, I had to re-read it a few times, myself.