Originally published by Jack Forster on Hodinkee. 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 ...

FARGO — Early clocks were sundials, and the earliest known sundials date from 1500 BCE and were made in Egypt and Babylonia, both north of the equator, which is important. A sundial is a stick mounted ...

Clockwise direction - The same direction as the movement of hands on a clock. Shortest - If you are in the tropics you may even notice that the shadow disappears at noon because the sun is directly ...