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Bolivia Congress Clock Altered to Turn Anti-Clockwise

posted by n1 on Friday June 27 2014, @03:18AM   Printer-friendly
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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Friday June 27 2014, @05:16PM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Friday June 27 2014, @05:16PM (#60941) Journal

    Well since I've never been to Bolivia I can't answer this question (nor be arsed to look it up as I have a skull thumper) so it seems obvious to me whether this is dumb or not can be answered by one simple question...do sundials there go counter clockwise? Because THAT is why clocks go what is now known as clockwise, its based on sundials in ancient history. Knowing this always made me ponder...if waterclocks would have kept up their popularity would our clocks and watches today go up and down instead of round and round?

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  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Monday June 30 2014, @03:42PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Monday June 30 2014, @03:42PM (#61978) Journal

    Yeah, clocks are based on *northern* sundials, as a southern sundial would indeed move counter-clockwise.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundial#Sundials_in_the_Southern_Hemisphere [wikipedia.org]