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Why do clocks turn clockwise (or to the right)?

In mathematics, this would be a negative rotation. But that’s just math, right? Well... no.
The world spins anti-clockwise when viewed from above (over the north pole). So why did we choose to reverse this natural turn of time? Was it because:

1. It was believed the earth was the center and the sun spun around us. That would mean the sun looked as if it were moving clockwise.
Okay, it makes sense. But how many clocks were built before 1630? (Kepler’s death)
And wouldn’t we just correct the error afterwards, like with the leap-year correction of 11 "lost" days.

2. Who cares?! It’s not like that’s the only mistake with time. Why are the months sometimes 30 and sometimes 31 days long? And then there’s February!
Yeah, time is pretty screwed. But what can you do when a day is 24 hours and a true year is 365.25 days long.


Clocks: The solution?
Metric time.
1.Allow a day to be divided into 10 units, and give these a name (from now on, "y").
2.Allow each unit to be divided into 10, keep these as serconts (or something similar).
3.Allow each sercont to be divided into 100, and also give these a name ("x").
Create a clock with 3 hands. The face should be divided into 10. The hands should move counter clockwise in the ratio if 1:10:1000.
A normal clock uses 1:60:3600
It takes 216,000 seconds to make the hour hand move around a full circle.
It would take 10,000 "x"’s for the smallest hand to move around once.

So how long would each unit be? Well, keeping AM and PM we get:

1.2 hours = 1 "y"
8 minutes = 1 serconts
4.8 seconds = 1 "x"

This isn’t too good for small time, but when you look at decimalisation of money, it makes sense to change time.
The week has a lot of religious meaning so we’ll keep the 7 days.
But what about months?
365.25 days can’t be changed; it IS a year (the leap year is made by adding up the extra ¹/₄ of a day over 4 years)
So maybe months should be kept the way they are... for now at least.

Time frame:

This would mean the average pulse is 5.76 per "x", or 576 per sercont.
A song would be about 43.75 "x"’s long (3:30)
A week is 70 "y"’s long.
The inner-city speed limit would be 36 mp"y" (or 58 kp"y") (30mph)


Final note: Yes, I do have too much free time to think.