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An insightful question. In the northern hemisphere, the gnomon on a sundial will have its shadow travel around the face, and in a clockwise direction!

In the Southern Hemisphere the travel will be anticlockwise.

But the Northern guys got there first, hence clockwise.

[Likewise, the northern guys named their pole North, and that settled that issue!]

Even arbitrary can sometimes have logic behind it.

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