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 ...

What if your wall clock or wristwatch's hands began moving anti-clockwise? The world around you might turn upside down, and your schedule might go for a toss. But life for hundreds of villagers in ...

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 ...

Not all of them do. The clock in Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, decorated by Paolo Uccello, travels anti-clockwise. SIR – Roundabouts (or carousels as they are known elsewhere) go round clockwise ...

The clock displayed on the Bolivian Congress building, located in the city of La Paz, has been re-set to run in reverse. Its hands turn left and the numbers have been inverted to go from one to twelve ...

The notion of Daylight Saving Time developed during the first World War. The Germans tried it first in 1915, putting their clocks an hour forward in the summertime. Then Britain and Ireland followed ...

The clock on the facade of the building housing the Bolivian congress in La Paz has been reversed. Its hands turn left and the numbers have been inverted to go from one to 12 anti-clockwise. Bolivian ...

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brain-teasers for future quizzes Molly Oldfield hosts Everything Under the Sun, a ...