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Maybe it's just too late and I'm too tired... but how is this DESC?
It has ORDER BY Hour DESC, results placed anticlockwise?
But... why would you place them anticlockwise when the hands move in a clockwise direction
Why would it have them in descending order in the first place? Nothing of this makes sense!
Probably to make them appear right in clockwise order! Sometimes two wrongs make a right. Except when lexical ordering is used.
Isn't the word counter-clockwise?
It's an American/British English difference
Til
Widdershins.
Literally never said that in my life?
You can learn something new every day.
It's either extremely successful ragebait, or op thinks "desc" means "sort as a string"