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In article <75...@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> g...@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kevin J Podsiadlik) writes:
 >In article <77...@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> John R. Mudd <j...@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
 >>She also mentioned the clock she had in her office.  It ran counter-clock-
 >>wise.  Her premise was that it was just a clock, it didn't matter which
 >>direction the hands turned, it simply had to tell time.  I've been meaning
 >>to fix a clock to do this someday.
 >>
 >>... John
 >
 >Funny you should mention it.  In an '82 Buick I have owned for several years
 >now, the clock in the car has had the strangest tendency to reverse direction
 >on the slightest impulse.  Anything from a dead battery to a pothole is
 >capable of flipping it's "polarity".  Currently it is going clockwise, but when
 >it is going counterclockwise, I have to set it to the mirror image of the
 >correct time for the clock to be useful.  Blows my passengers' minds when
 >I glance at a clock reading 4:50 and say, "Oh, it's ten after seven."
 >
 >Any EE majors or car buffs have any idea what the cause might be?  (I am a
 >EE major myself, but I am clueless on this one.)  Please Email, I am not
 >subscribed to rec.autos.
 >
 >Kevin Podsiadlik				    g...@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
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 >P.S. I don't know if my clock goes "kcot-kcit" when it runs backwards.

You know, most analog clocks run counter-clockwise if you look from behind
the clock toward the glass at the front :-) I made the standard wall clock
in my lab run backwards in the late 60's just for fun. Otherwise thinking
types would nod and say "uh-huh" when they asked how and I said that I plugged
it in backwards.

I sometimes wonder how physics will be taught when clockwise has lost meaning
because all the clocks are digital. Only right and left hand rules? Or
maybe the term will be Northern Hemisphere Toiletflushwise and Southern
Hemisphere Toiletflushwise. Are toilets in the southern hemishpere built
as mirror images of northern hemisphere toilets?

Inquiring minds want to know.
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