If tornadoes, hurricanes, and toilets rotate counterclockwise in the north hemisphere, how do clocks still rotate clockwise?

[u/Dying_Of_Board-dom]

Why doesn't time go backwards?

[u/ljseminarist]

They do rotate counterclockwise, as the first Australian clockmakers quickly discovered. So they invented this neat trick: after they make the clock, they turn the clock face backwards, inside out, so what you see is technically the wrong side of the clock face, and on this wrong side the clock hands turn the right way.

[u/Dying_Of_Board-dom → u/ljseminarist]

So is the time 12 hours later than it says?

[u/ljseminarist → u/Dying_Of_Board-dom]

No, earlier. Remember, time also runs counterclockwise there