Sun widget: sun goes clockwise, opposite to physics

Which hemisphere do you live on?  If you live in the  Northern hemisphere above the tropic, the Sun will indeed always move (apparently, of course) clockwise. The opposite is naturally true in the southern hemisphere (again at latitudes above the tropic). Between the tropics if depends on the time of the year, because the key is on wether the sun is to the south or to the north of you.

That's not the point; I imagine the widget as a view north of the horizon. In that case the Sun always moves from right to left, at every point on Earth. It's true that at different points on earth the Sun cycles at different heights and can be "behind" you, circling from the south, which gives the impression of a clock wise movement, when looking from above. But that's not the widget's perspective, because the lower half of the widget represents "below" the earth so the upper one represents the horizon and not a view from the top.

I am then not understanding your setup. All I can add to my previous post is that:

1. I live in the Northern hemisphere (let's say 40 degrees North)

2. If I turn South to look at the horizon (so that in a 2D projection I see the horizon as a horizontal line, the sky as the upper semi-circle, the hidden lower semi-circle representing the '"below the horizon line" realm, and the Sun at maximum height at local noon), I will have created the exact same perspective used by the widget. (As I interpret it, of course).

3. I can assure you, from repeated observation:), that, in such a situation, "my sun" seems to be rotating clockwise. It rises from the East (at my left), and sets in the West (at my right). It therefore circles clockwise, as the Widget represents it.

Again, had I lived at 40S, things would have been the opposite. To see the sun moving over the horizon I would need to turn North, and I would see the Sun circling anti-clockwise, given that the Earth is rotating eastward.

My apologies if I am still misunderstanding your setup, but this is the best I can do.

Beat regards

Thanks for expanding. I have nothing against your subjective experience, my point is that unless the widget is location-based, i.e. in the southern hemisphere we'll see counter clockwise movement, then there's a bug, an oversight if you will. In order to be as general as possible, in a north-based-world-view, East is right, West is left and the Sun moves from right to left. If I had to design a Sun widget, that's how I would do it. Unless someone tells us how the widget looks like in the south hemisphere or some Garmin person explains the widget, I think it's a bug.

If you consider the earth as fix point and the sun turning around it, then you have to possibilities for seeing a circle, namely the North and the South Pole. In that case, the interpretation by PMO makes sense for me. If you consider the earth as a map with north at the top, then the sun does not create a circle but a line from east to west. But in the small circle on the watch face, the representation is circular, so again, this makes more sense for the former interpretation.