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When clocks were first made, they were modeled on the existing timepiece of the sun and the sundial.

In the Northern hemisphere the sun appears to track across the sky in a clockwise direction. When facing towards the position of the midday sun (south in the northern hemisphere): starting from the east, the sun appears to rotate or follow an arc up and north and then south and down across the sky during the day.

In the southern hemishere the apparent arc and rotation is anticlockwise when facing towards the position of the midday sun (north).

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