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In spaces where visibility is paramount, such as in office settings or hallways, LED or digital wall clocks in the anticlockwise format provide clear readability. For example, some older cars and trucks had right-handed lug nuts on the right wheels and left-handed lug nuts on the left wheels, so that, as the vehicle moved forward, the lug nuts tended to tighten rather than loosen. This is why hours must be drawn in horizontal sundials in that manner, and why modern clocks have their numbers set in the same way, and their hands moving accordingly.

To do this, they will be aware of which way to turn the protractor, either clockwise or anti-clockwise and will be able to calculate angles around a point, straight line and within 90°. The first thing most of us notice about clocks and watches when we learn to tell time, is that the hands turn clockwise – the habit of perceiving clockwise motion as a representation of the forward movement of time is deeply ingrained; so much so that once having learned it, most of us cease to notice it at all.

Sun dials are great, in that they don't need refilling, worked accurately and well(apart from in Great Britain) and could be made cheaply and easily. One historic Jewish clock was built that way in the Jewish Town Hall in Prague in the 18th century, using right-to-left reading in the Hebrew language.

There's nothing to stop the hands of a clock from running backwards — indeed, some actually do — but the overwhelming majority move, well, clockwise. Children who are in Year 6 need to rotate shapes through 90˚ or 180˚ either clockwise or anti-clockwise.

The earliest sundials known from the archaeological record are the obelisks and sundials are mentioned in old texts such as in Isaiah 38:8. In 2014 under Bolivian president Evo Morales, the clock outside the Legislative Assembly in Plaza Murillo, La Paz, was shifted to counterclockwise motion to promote indigenous values.

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