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Tony[_19_]

Tony 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?

It was very true when talking about older wind up clocks but I don't
think it will hurt a newer clock. Hmm, well not all new clocks. I
wouldn't turn a brand new grandfather clock movement backwards but I've
turned the single AA battery type movements backwards for many years and
never had a problem.

Since the post above I changed my clocks back an hour. I see the cheap
single AA cell battery type shows arrows, turning the time adjustment
either direction.