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Bolivia Congress Clock Altered to Turn Anti-Clockwise

posted by n1 on Friday June 27 2014, @03:18AM   
from the how-does-it-work-on-a-digital-clock dept.

dryriver writes:

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.

• anticlockwise vs. counterclockwise anticlockwise vs. counterclockwise (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday June 27 2014, @02:33PM

  by tangomargarine (667) on Friday June 27 2014, @02:33PM (#60871)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwise [wikipedia.org]

  Apparently the problem, as usual, is that Commonwealth English specifies anticlockwise, while Americans say counterclockwise. Should've seen that one coming.

  I propose we return to "dexter and widdershins" :)

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• Re:anticlockwise vs. counterclockwise (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 27 2014, @05:22PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 27 2014, @05:22PM (#60942)

  Dexter and sinister. Widdershins and deosil.

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