Thread: Analog clock...setting time
View Single Post
  #5   Report Post  
Posted to alt.home.repair
Sanity[_6_] Sanity[_6_] is offline
external usenet poster
  
Posts: 1
Default Analog clock...setting time
Van Chocstraw wrote:
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.
Reply With QuoteReply With Quote