This Clock in La Paz Runs Counterclockwise

In 2014, the clock on La Paz’s House of Congress was reconfigured to run backwards so that its hands turn counterclockwise. Bolivia’s Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca declared the mechanism to be ‘The Clock of the South’.



The modern analogue clock is an evolution of the Roman sundial. In the Northern Hemisphere, the shadow from a sundial naturally moves in a clockwise direction. Down in South America, however, the opposite is true. Choquehuanca sees the backwards clock as paying homage to the nation’s indigenous heritage, a way for the masses to more closely identify with their indigenous roots.
In case you're wondering, the country did not impose the new clock style on all its citizens.

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Thanks Bruce!