Backward land
Sir, — Travellers to Europe, North America, and Japan, may have noticed that, seen from those countries, the sun orbits clockwise. Such directional consensus between the arbiter of time and man-made gauges of time is fitting and proper. In the Southern Hemisphere, however, owing to the failure of the largely Northern-Hemisphere-estab-lished time-piece manufacturers to take cognisance of local conditions, our clocks and watches rotate against the sun. Is this flying in the face of nature? Even if we have time on our hands, can we call our time our own? Now is the time for our sturdy independence and Kiwi ingenuity to combine to capture a vast market by developing timepieces rotating (in conventional terms) backwards. These instruments would be another New Zealand “first” by being revolutionary and counter-revolutionary at the same time. — Yours, etc., W. R. ALLARDYCE. January 15, 1986.
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