Analog clock...setting time

Posted by on November 1, 2009, 10:49 am

As a force of habit I have been resetting the clocks around the house
by only moving the hands clockwise. Somewhere along the line I was
told a clock could be damaged if you moved the hands backwards.
I have no idea of the source or validity of the information. Have I
been misled all these years?

Posted by Josh on November 1, 2009, 11:02 am

On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:49:47 -0500, tnom@mucks.net wrote:

>As a force of habit I have been resetting the clocks around the house
>by only moving the hands clockwise. Somewhere along the line I was
>told a clock could be damaged if you moved the hands backwards.
>I have no idea of the source or validity of the information. Have I
>been misled all these years?

I'm sure it depends on the clock -- I have heard the same about some
grandfather clocks and similar with very delicate, complicated,
mechanisms. But normal watches and clocks with the square mechanisms
and time-set knob I'm sure are fine to crank either way.

Josh

Posted by Tony on November 1, 2009, 11:02 am

tnom@mucks.net wrote:

> As a force of habit I have been resetting the clocks around the house
> by only moving the hands clockwise. Somewhere along the line I was
> told a clock could be damaged if you moved the hands backwards.
> I have no idea of the source or validity of the information. Have I
> been misled all these years?

It was very true when talking about older wind up clocks but I don't
think it will hurt a newer clock. Hmm, well not all new clocks. I
wouldn't turn a brand new grandfather clock movement backwards but I've
turned the single AA battery type movements backwards for many years and
never had a problem.

Posted by Tony on November 1, 2009, 1:48 pm

Tony wrote:

> tnom@mucks.net wrote:

>> As a force of habit I have been resetting the clocks around the house
>> by only moving the hands clockwise. Somewhere along the line I was
>> told a clock could be damaged if you moved the hands backwards.
>> I have no idea of the source or validity of the information. Have I
>> been misled all these years?

>
> It was very true when talking about older wind up clocks but I don't
> think it will hurt a newer clock. Hmm, well not all new clocks. I
> wouldn't turn a brand new grandfather clock movement backwards but I've
> turned the single AA battery type movements backwards for many years and
> never had a problem.

Since the post above I changed my clocks back an hour. I see the cheap
single AA cell battery type shows arrows, turning the time adjustment
either direction.

Posted by Stormin Mormon on November 1, 2009, 11:06 am

I've not hear that. Might have been true some generations
ago, with older clocks.

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As a force of habit I have been resetting the clocks around
the house
by only moving the hands clockwise. Somewhere along the line
I was
told a clock could be damaged if you moved the hands
backwards.
I have no idea of the source or validity of the information.
Have I
been misled all these years?

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