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?

  • dirkgentle@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I am trying to picture it, but I think the sunwise convention only works in the Northern hemisphere.

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      1 year ago

      Yep - in the northern hemisphere a sundial shadow will move from west to east in a clockwise fashion; in the southern hemisphere it still goes west to east but does so moving anticlockwise.