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
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    11 months 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
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      11 months ago

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

      • aesopjah@lemm.ee
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        11 months ago

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

          • aesopjah@lemm.ee
            11·
            11 months 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