If the Earth rotated from East-West instead of West-east, what would happen?

Question

What would happen to the seasons, and daylight periods?

Answer 1

Nothing will happen!
but maybe I will not become a programmer if it does!!

Answer 2

Would this question assume that you would also reverse the orbital behavior of the Moon? If so, then great, nothing much would change. But taking the question literally means that the friction between the Earth-Moon system would cause some major tidal problems, causing the Moon to start falling back towards us. We have to remember that the Moon is locked by mass with the earth, that's why we never see the other side of the moon.

If you study what is happening to Triton, one of the moons of Neptune, you'll know that the moon is in retrograde orbit around the planet, meaning that the moon is moving in the opposite direction of the rotation of Neptune. This tidal relationship between Neptune and Triton means that the planet will eventually collide with the planet or break apart and develop a ring system for Neptune.

So you'll see the things happening as described by the above answers, but only assuming that the Moon's orbital characteristics are adjusted as well.

Answer 3

The sun would rise in the West and set in the East. The seasons would stay the same with Summer in June in the Northern Hemisphere, but the pattern of winds on the surface of the earth would change, and this would have a big effect on the climate in many places close to the oceans: Europe would freeze for a start. The east coast of the United States would become warmer and so would Japan and the parts of Russia north of it.

Answer 4

The sun would rise in west instead of the east, and the stars in the night sky would move from west to east. Other than that there's nothing important about our world that would be effected. The seasons are not controlled by the direction Earth rotates, but by its 23-degree axial tilt.

Answer 5

If Earth rotated east to west we would see the sun rising on the west and setting on the east. Stars would do the same. Basically this.

Answer 6

Of course, the sky would appear to rotate in the opposite direction that it does now, but that's not all.

The solar day would be shorter, about 23 hours, 52 minutes and 9 seconds. This would mean that there would be about 367.25 days in a year instead of 365.25 days. The reason why this is is that the Earth wouldn't have to rotate a full 360 degrees before the sun returned to the same spot in the sky, due to the fact that it is orbiting the sun.

Answer 7

If you were to go south of the equator and pulled out your trusty compass, you would find that the earth does rotate east to west. The compass would indicate that the south pole was north. However, in relation to the sun and moon, if we were spinning the other way and everything else was the same, the counter-clockwise revolution of the moon would probably make the atmosphere similar to Jupiter's.

Answer 8

Daylight and seasons would pretty much be the same, the only difference would be that the sun would rise and set in opposite directions and same with the moon.

Answer 9

Nothing of any particular interest. If the earth rotated at the same speed with respect to the stars, days would be eight minutes longer than they are now.

Answer 10

The seasons would be ok.
The sun would rise in the west.
Every one would be left handed.