Just need to vent...

Anti-ClockWise = CCW to us in non-Commonwealth countries. Lots of Canadians here, and lived / worked w/ them a bunch in WA, old habits die hard

 

Ah......time.
"Clocks" are interesting things.
I worked with scientists who insisted that hours, minutes, and seconds were only devised to make clocks more attractive....or 'convenient.'
It's the original "analogue versus digital" argument.
Degrees, minutes and seconds DO make for more convenient sea navigation in a 'pre-1800's' world.

Face it.
We live on a spinning ball.
People who are educated beyond their intelligence might describe it as a rapidly rotating oblated spheroid - but math is math and science is science.

On the afternoon of 10 December, 1941 this argument was settled for all.......um.......'time.'

It's COUNTER CLOCKWISE.
Deal with it.

People have ten fingers, but time and nature are analogue - NOT digital.

 

Depends on your viewpoint. Down at atomic / quantum / Planck scales, it goes back to digital, or at least partially so. With plenty of weirdness.

 

I think that's what I was getting at—if the twist is ACW, then it all comes down to flipping the switch on your reversible drill to ACW. The earlier post sounded as if how you secure it in the chuck had something to do with it, but I don't think it does.

 

I'm going to have to ponder that some.
You might have had me at the atomic scale and DNA seems digitaly but quantum seems like an a/d conversion, and then there's all of those pesky subs.

I would have to stand on the shoulders of those taller than myself to see that far.

 

Twelve stakes in the ground making a sundial may have been based on something other than aesthetics, but I have not read what that might have been.