Why do clocks run closkwise?

Question

Why do clocks run closkwise?

Answer 1

they run clock wise because it is the movement of clocks and it is much easier for us to understand a clock going clockwise. clock makers know most people their right eye is mostly dominant.

Answer 2

Because the sun goes that way, therefore a sun dial goes clockwise. People were used to them going that direction so clocks were made to go the same way.

Answer 3

In the old days, anti-clockwise movement was considered unnatural and unlucky.  Left to right was the way to be.   Right to left was called 'widdershins,' and you didn't want to do that. They were superstitious.

Yes it's because the sun goes that way.

Answer 4

bic we wanted them to.

Answer 5

a. because they don't have legs

b. because they don't run anti-clockwise

c. because they are clocks

d. because time marches on

e. all of the above

Answer 6

they run clockwise because they were invented in the n. hemisphere, and sundials in the north run clockwise. It was natural when inventing an artificial timepiece to make it run the same direction as a natural one. If the clock had been invented south of the equator they would have probably run the other direction.

Answer 7

Where I am, in Nuremberg in Germany, there's an old sundial on the wall of one of the buildings in the city centre.  Early in the morning the shadow's to the left and, as the day porgresses, it travels to the right.  It's running clockwise.  As sun ials go clockwise it presumably seemed the natural thing to copy when it came to making clocks.