Originally published by Jack Forster on Hodinkee. The first thing most of us notice about clocks and watches when we learn to tell time, is that the hands turn clockwise – the habit of perceiving ...

What if your wall clock or wristwatch's hands began moving anti-clockwise? The world around you might turn upside down, and your schedule might go for a toss. But life for hundreds of villagers in ...

For those of us who still use analogue clocks, the passage of time is marked by a continuous process in which the hands move downwards to the right and then upwards to the left when they reach the ...

The clock on the facade of the building housing the Bolivian congress in La Paz has been reversed. Its hands turn left and the numbers have been inverted to go from one to 12 anti-clockwise. Bolivian ...

The clock displayed on the Bolivian Congress building, located in the city of La Paz, has been re-set to run in reverse. Its hands turn left and the numbers have been inverted to go from one to twelve ...

Not all of them do. The clock in Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, decorated by Paolo Uccello, travels anti-clockwise. SIR – Roundabouts (or carousels as they are known elsewhere) go round clockwise ...

As the Gond tribals of Koriya district in north Chhattisgarh have shown, such clocks too tell the time perfectly. Only the position of some of the numerals from one to 12 needs to be altered, reports ...

The Congress building is located in the historic centre of La Paz The clock on the facade of the building housing the Bolivian congress in La Paz has been reversed. Its hands turn left and the numbers ...