Have you ever stopped to think about how time is interconnected to the rotation and revolution of our home base? Or why the face of an analog clock is designed the way it is? If so, you are not alone.

The humble amazing protractor used in every geometry lesson measuring angles and arcs is the base of the clocks I grew up learning to read. I doubt if many students today even could make the connection given that nearly all timepieces are digital now. Yet the hour and minute intervals coincide with the angles made by the hands of the clock connected at the center of the clock face.

Earth rotates on its axis 15 degrees each hour of the 24-hour period. Time didn’t really matter until vehicles were invented that could travel farther across the surface of the planet than the Sun did as Earth ro

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