Video: Why do clocks run clockwise?
Sharing a youtube video featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson I found entertaining and educational.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P5rBJ746F1g
Some brief but interesting points raised on watches and time reading. Points below:
Sundials and North vs Southern Hemisphere vs Equator sun movements
Backwards/anticlockwise clock would prevail if sundials were created in the Southern Hemisphere
The prevalence of digital time the loss of thinking about time geometrically.
Conceptually reading time as a approximation vs precisely (analogue vs digital)
Accuracy of clocks and time setting
There were a few more but the points above got me thinking how cool and weird and how interesting if our watches as we know it today all ran anti-clockwise or "clockwise" if sundials were invented south of the equator.
How the younger generations won't use "half-past" or "quarter-to" and how my millennial brain mourns the loss of this way of telling time less specifically and more generally. I find when my partner asks for the time my kids will give exact vs my own approximation "it's about 7:35"vs"7:33"
And finally, how ironic it is when I reflect on my morning rhythm when I set my watch, I use my iphone to reference the exact time.
Hope you enjoy the video as I did!
Hmm not sure why the link in the post doesn't show up properly.
But if you search for the Startalk channel or search "Why do clocks run clockwise?" in youtube you'll find it.
Its a thing after all
Seems like an interesting video, albeit a bit too advanced for me. I'll put in my Watch Later playlist (hehe) for now. Thanks for sharing, BTW!
Thanks for sharing!
Good video, one of my heroes. Thank you 👍👍
Seems like an interesting video, albeit a bit too advanced for me. I'll put in my Watch Later playlist (hehe) for now. Thanks for sharing, BTW!
Haha it does take a while to get into and Neil's banter with Chuck the cohost does go off the rails occasionally.
The tl;dr for why clock's run "clockwise" is because when the sun moves from East to West, the shadow cast from a sundial's gnomon in the Northern hemisphere, moves from the left over to the right on the sun dial.
And that's how early clock makers developed their movements, left to right or "clockwise" as we now call it.
Found this whilst looking up sundials... A hybrid of analogue and digital... Or is it Old tech and New?
The "Digital Sundial"😂
Haha it does take a while to get into and Neil's banter with Chuck the cohost does go off the rails occasionally.
The tl;dr for why clock's run "clockwise" is because when the sun moves from East to West, the shadow cast from a sundial's gnomon in the Northern hemisphere, moves from the left over to the right on the sun dial.
And that's how early clock makers developed their movements, left to right or "clockwise" as we now call it.
Ok I see. Thanks for the summary mate
What a Goofy looking watch!