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The BBC reports:
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 Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca dubbed it the "clock of the south". He said the change had been made to get Bolivians to treasure their heritage and show them that they could question established norms and think creatively.
"Who says that the clock always has to turn one way? Why do we always have to obey? Why can't we be creative?", he asked at a news conference on Tuesday. "We don't have to complicate matters, we just have to be conscious that we live in the south, not in the north," Mr Choquehuanca added.
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(Score: 2) by stderr on Friday June 27 2014, @02:09PM
If only they had also rotated the clock 90 degree, so 12 would be at (1;0), 1 at (cos(π/6);sin(π/6)), 2 at (cos(2π/6);sin(2π/6)) etc. It would have made a lot more sense!
"What time is it?"
"Oh, that's easy! You just use arccos() and arcsin() to get the angle of rotation of the hour hand, then multiply that by 6/π and floor() the result. If the result of all that is 0, add 12. That's the hours... Then you find the angle of rotation of the minute hand, multiply it by 30/π and you got the minutes. See? Easy!"
"OMFSM! You're right! It's so simple! Let's change all clocks!"
alias sudo="echo make it yourself #" #