2006-09-15 11:24:05 · 20 answers · asked by ajm7_2000 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
cuz time would go backwards and we'd be late for every thing ...or early lol
2006-09-15 11:26:44 · answer #1 · answered by she wolf. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Think better how to ask a question.
See, CLOCKwise. It's CLOCKwise, because the clock is named clock. If the clock were an apple, It would be right for you to say APPLEWISE. That's why.
2006-09-15 11:35:54 · answer #2 · answered by Tudor_ 22 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason might be quite simple. Our original clocks were sundials.
In the northern hemisphere, where sundials were first used extensively, the shadow on a sundial moves around its face in a clockwise direction, as the sun moves across the sky.
Mechanical clocks with hands were originally built to imitate the path of a sundial shadow.
2006-09-15 11:42:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because if they didn't we wouldn't have the word clockwise and then the film "Clockwise" starring John Cleese would've had to have been called "The headteacher who is obsessed with things running on time has to go to a conference but gets into all sorts of crazy mishaps on the way and shouts a lot!" and it'd never have fitted on the poster.
2006-09-15 11:35:10 · answer #4 · answered by No_More_Drama 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clocks run the way they do because sundials go clockwise in the northern hemisphere. Because sundials were invented before clocks, when the first mechanical clocks were made, people made them go the same way as sundials. If clocks were running in Austrailia, they might be running backwards.
2006-09-15 11:35:48 · answer #5 · answered by menezes_dean 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Convention.
Sundials were popular in Europe, and the face of a clock is based on the face of a sundial - which is, in turn, determined by the movement of the sun.
If clockwork had been developed in the Southern Hemisphere, they'd probably go round the other way...
2006-09-15 12:35:26 · answer #6 · answered by IanP 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The home of time is Greenwich, in the Northern Hemisphere, where sundials go "clockwise".
Why does the earth spin in the direction it does and not the other way?
2006-09-15 11:33:14 · answer #7 · answered by knighttemplar1119 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was going to say because its a right to left world but in other countrys some of them drive on the left! Anybody now which way a clock runs in England? lol
2006-09-15 11:29:46 · answer #8 · answered by noname 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whichever way clocks ran, we'd call it clockwise.
2006-09-15 11:52:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because otherwise they would run anti clockwise
2006-09-15 12:19:02 · answer #10 · answered by GARY E 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because if they run counter clock wise they might be called counter clocks, lol
2006-09-15 12:39:09 · answer #11 · answered by Jewel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋