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Posted by Sanity on November 1, 2009, 11:32 am
Van Chocstraw 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?
>
> I turn mine backwards with no problems. Of course they are all battery
> operated. In the old wind up days it may have been true. How did they
> turn a sun dial backwards?
They reversed the orbit of the Earth around the sun.
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> 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?