Analog clock...setting time

Posted by Ed Pawlowski on November 2, 2009, 10:42 pm

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> turn a sun dial backwards?

Mine is on the deck. I just turn the house a few degrees.

Posted by Fay on November 2, 2009, 8:02 pm

> 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?

I have a sun dial. The arm that has a bolt to adjust the time.

Posted by Tony Hwang on November 1, 2009, 11:32 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?

Hi,
I turn the hand backward on our vintage mantle clock. Nothing happened.
Still it keeps good time and chimes as long as I wind it up every week.

Posted by RicodJour on November 1, 2009, 12:22 pm

> t...@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 the hand backward on our vintage mantle clock. Nothing happened.
> Still it keeps good time and chimes as long as I wind it up every week.

With older mechanical movements with chimes you are supposed to turn
the hands backwards, or with some clocks you can turn the hands
forward and stop at each chime interval. With electric and battery
clocks it doesn't matter.

R

Posted by Harry K on November 1, 2009, 11:42 pm

> t...@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?

> Hi,
> I turn the hand backward on our vintage mantle clock. Nothing happened.
> Still it keeps good time and chimes as long as I wind it up every week.

I've always turned the wind-ups backward starting with my first one
about 1954. Never a problem. Got my first battery one a few years
ago.

Harry K

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