Clockwise and anticlockwise are such basic concepts in talking about movement that even if the concept of an analogue clock was completely lost (which it isn't yet), we would still need to call it something – so clockwise it is, unless you want to go back to "deasil and widdershins".


I learned the term "deasil" from Golden Sun – it was instructions to solving a puzzle and I had to look it up in a dictionary – and it still pops up in my mind when I get similar instructions, most recently the statue puzzle at Aloalo Island. And then I think how much people would lose their minds over it here after the fuss about "larboard".