if clocks were made below the equator would they move the opposite then they do now?
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The direction that a clock goes is entirely dependent on how it is made.  You can easily put the numbers in the opposite direction above the equator and have it work, so which side of the equator it's made on doesn't really matter.
949405
Judge for yourself based on this: Time is a MAN MADE construction. That is, it is not a natural element in life. For those of you who would argue, please answer how it can be set back and set forward (daylight's saving time). If it were natural you wouldn't be able to limit it to the watches you wear or the clocks on the wall. It would be beyond any human control and it would be very hard for anyone to grasp the concept and explain it. As it is, we CAN explain it and grasp it, therefore, it is not natural.\n\nSo my answer is no.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n.
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This is not true, but widely circulated as fact.\n\nI quote verbatim from snopes:\n\n"Because  \n\n   the Earth is a globe spinning on an invisible axis, a point at its equator will make a circuit of 25,000 miles in the space of a day, but any point not on the equator will make a shorter round trip; the closer that point is to either of the poles, the shorter its trip will be. Put another way, a pencil     at the equator travels 1,030 miles an hour, whereas another at Sarasota, Florida, moves at 930 miles per hour, and one at the North pole doesn't move at all. \n\n This apparent difference in speed results in the Coriolis force, an effect that imparts a twist to largish events happening away from the equator. Best known is its effect on air masses: as they move away from the equator, their speed (which matches that of where they started from) appears to be faster than that of the surface over which they are traveling. This sets them turning in a clockwise twist in the northern hemisphere and a counterclockwise twist in the southern. (Before you complain we have that backwards, please click here.)  Likewise, a cannonball fired due north will veer a teeny bit to the east, and one fired to the south will deflect ever so slightly to the west, something a skilled gunner would make an adjustment for. \n\n The twisting effect of the Coriolis force is real and does influence certain large things like the movement of air masses, but the effect is so small that it plays no role in determining the direction in which water rotates as it exits from a draining sink or toilet. The Coriolis effect produces a measurable effect over huge distances and long periods of time, neither of which applies to your bathroom. Toilets and sinks drain in the directions they do because of the way water is directed into them or pulled from them. If water enters in a swirling motion (as it does when a toilet is flushed, for example), the water will exit in that same swirling pattern; as well, most basins have irregular surfaces and are not perfectly level, factors which influence the direction in which water spirals down their drains. The configuration of taps and drains is responsible for the direction of spin given to water draining from sinks and bathtubs to a degree that overwhelms the slight influence of the Coriolis force. \n\n The belief that the Coriolis force influences the direction in which water drains from plumbing fixtures is widespread and has been repeated as fact in a number of venues, including popular television shows (such as world traveler Michael Palin's Pole to Pole) and even in textbooks.  We can only speculate on why people are so enamored of this snippet of misinformation, guessing that it has something to do with the desire to find some of the mysteries of science in the realm of the everyday. "
314759
Yes, it would be more accurate, but the calculations are much harder. Whether it is worth it depends on what you have to do with the information. One thing that happens is 'frame dragging', where a rotating mass drags along space and time with the rotation. We now have a probe in orbit around the earth to measure exactly this phenomenon.
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Yes, as long as definitions are consistent.\n\nThe Moon rotates from west to east, the same direction that it revolves around the earth. At its equator, the Moon rotates at a speed of about 10 miles (16 kilometers) per hour. \n\nThe Earth rotates on its axis from West to East with its axis in the North/South direction.\n\nIt is sometimes thought that the Moon does not rotate, because it always presents the same face (roughly) to a point on Earth. However this is because the time it takes to complete one rotation is almost the same as the time it takes to complete one revolution around the earth; not because it does not rotate.
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Yes, especially forward at a rate of 1 sec = 1 sec.\n\nI also believe that other rates are possible depending on velocity and proximity to sources of gravity.\n\nI also would like to believe that it can be reversed, but that's harder to swallow due to paradox effects.
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My guess is that they would still work-you would not get an accurate reading of your position though-what coordinate system or projection is space in? and the reading would have to bounce back into earth from a reading station and then back to the GPS units-\nWhich brings up another question? Would signals be lost in translation?\nI really don't know\nBut its gonna bother me.
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The simple answer is no.  It would actually be shorter.\n\nIn simple newtonian mechanics an object on the top of everest and an object at ground level will take the same amount of time to circle the earth (ie one day) and return to their initial positions.  However the object on top of everest will be moving faster.  Take a large revolving door for example.  If two people enter the door and one goes to the middle of the door (by the pivot) and the other goes next to the edge of the door, the person at the edge will have to move faster than the guy at the middle to keep up.\n\nHowever, in reality newtonian mechanics is only an estimate.  It is Einstein's theory of relativity that brings about the most accurate timings.  Using Time dilation methods it can be shown that the object on top of everest will have an ever so slightly shorter day because it is moving faster.
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clockwise it doesnt go counter like so many people think if you know the laws of the coriolis effect you would know that the water below the equator flows counter clockwise however the water in the toilet is not large enough to be considered for the coriolis effect...sooo clockwise
664008
Yes, we do adjust our clocks in Colorado.  Forward one hour in the spring, backward one hour in the fall.  Spring forward, fall back.
590720
Yes we would be, unless... we create some coordinates system or something like that just to pretend that in certain times we are going UP and at other time we are goind DOWN, Left, or Right... even if there is no true, or certain "UP" or "DOWN" in space.
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Yes they'd revolve around their common center of mass (CM), which currently is located only 280 mi from the center of the sun, the sun's mass being 332830 x earth's.  With equal masses the CM would be midway between their centers.  The CM actually moves a bit due to perturbations from other planets that act on both bodies. \nYou can quickly approximate the new period. The new composite mass (in earth units) is 2 instead of the current 332831, and the radius (in earth-to-CM current  distance units) is .5 instead of (almost exactly) 1.  Kepler's 3rd law says T = (2*pi*R^1.5)/sqrt(G*M), so the new duration of a year is .5^1.5*sqrt(332831/2), or 144 current years, for an orbital speed of 15.3 feet/sec.
145182
Some time zone lines do not extend to the poles. There is actually a polar time for the north pole and the south pole. See the link below.
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Latitude doesn't affect time at all. For Longitude, since 360 degrees encompasses the entire earth's surface, and since the earth rotates once in 24 hours, the time between two points one degree apart in longitude is 24/360 or 4/60 or 1/15 of an hour, which is 4 minutes. (you can break this down as far as you want, using smaller and smaller longitudinal differences). As an offshoot of this, there are 15 degrees in an arc of the earth representing  one time zone. By the way, there is no "local time" at either the North or South Pole, but that's a story for another time.
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Arizona and Hawaii!\n\n"Arizona (except some Indian Reservations), Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have chosen not to observe Daylight Saving Time. This choice does make sense for the areas closer to the equator because the days are more consistent in length throughout the year."
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Scientists are delaying the start of 2006 by the first "leap second" in seven years, a timing tweak meant to make up for changes in the Earth's rotation.\n\nThe adjustment will be carried out by sticking an extra second into atomic clocks worldwide at the stroke of midnight Coordinated Universal Time, the widely adopted international standard, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology said this week.\n\nFor more info, visit:\nhttp://www.theage.com.au/news/world/a-year-late/2005/12/25/1135445473624.html
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It would have to be the line some call GMT\nor Universal time, Where time starts.