Have you ever thought “Why do clocks run Clockwise?”
But now I am 100% sure that you are thinking “Why do clock run Clockwise?”
Mechanical clocks were invented in the Northern Hemisphere (in what is now Iraq) by inventors who were trying to make models of the sun's movement in the sky.
To watch the sun from the Northern Hemisphere (in what is now Iraq), you have to face south. Then the sun will rise on your left and pass over your head to set on your right. Since the hour hand on the clock was made to follow the sun's motion through the sky, it moves from left to right over the top of the clock - clockwise. The hands are actually modeled after the shadow on a sundial.
Therefore, our modern 'clockwise' seems to be an accident of the development of civilization in the Northern Hemisphere and human nature.
If our ancestors had decided to develop civilization in southern Africa, or the Antipodes, clockwise would have been counter-clockwise, simply because everything is reversed south of the Equator.
A sundial designed for North Dakota will work in New Zealand, but the numbers will be backwards.
Counter-clockwise Clock
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If clocks moved in the opposite direction it would still be in a clockwise motion.
If the sun "passed over your head" it wouldn't matter if they were facing north or south.
[citation needed]
Where are you getting this information? I call b.s.