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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 24257851" data-attributes="member: 158020">ආපස්සට_කැරකෙමු-The Bolivian Clock That Runs Backwards- The    building that houses Bolivia’s legislative assembly in Plaza Murillo,    in central La Paz, features a clock above the entrance that looks  like a   mirror image. The positions of the numerals on the clock face  are   reversed, and the clock itself runs anticlockwise. The   building, which  was erected during the 1920s and was originally   intended to serve as the  headquarters of Bolivia's central bank,   featured a regular clock until  2014, when the clock was reversed to   better reflect the “southern-ness”  of the Bolivian people.    “Who said clocks always have to run the  same way? Why do we always   have to be obedient? Why can't we be  creative?” asked Bolivian Foreign   Minister David Choquehuanca, who  seemed especially pleased with the   idea.   <img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-F7jv6bUQ89Q/XGp6SvaJkTI/AAAAAAAAeOY/ktCeN__c1y43wR5w6gZv4TKPo8m8ZNFxwCLcBGAs/s1600/la-paz-anti-clock-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     According  to Choquehuanca, the change was made to get Bolivians to   treasure their  heritage, and help the masses to more closely identify   with their  indigenous roots. The two main indigenous groups of the   Bolivian people,  the Aymarans and the Quechuans, are unique in the   world in viewing the  past as in front of them and the future behind   them. The   reversed clock  also conforms to the direction the sundial’s shadow   moves in the  southern hemisphere. After all, the direction of movement   of a clock’s  hands wasn’t chosen arbitrarily. Clocks are an evolution   of the sundial,  and in the northern hemisphere a sundial's shadow runs   clockwise, while  in the southern hemisphere it moves  counterclockwise,  making La Paz’s  clock a representation of the  natural motion of shadows  in the northern  hemisphere.    However, that’s not true for the entire year. Being  located close to   the equator, the shadow on a sundial in La Paz doesn’t  always move in   the anti-clockwise direction. For several months, the  direction of   motion changes to clockwise as the sun passes to the South  of La Paz in   the Southern Hemisphere’s summer months.   When the new clock was installed, many La Paz residents thought it was an error. Others welcomed the change. Some even think all clocks on the continent should be reversed like this one.   <img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b67tBaLfp3A/XGp6Si5qUKI/AAAAAAAAeOU/Z5V9YFHRv6YCdo--TdiiCAFyH3UHjWFSQCLcBGAs/s1600/la-paz-anti-clock-2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   <img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lFM77sSS4TM/XGp6SjpzQGI/AAAAAAAAeOQ/vDYzFVr4v5M-SCEb3sE50tA2Q2zRIZdRQCLcBGAs/s1600/la-plaz-assemby-clock.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> (The previous clock on the House of Congress) </blockquote>

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