I agree, I misworded the statement, the sun does indeed shine from northwest for a couple of hours in the summer months in Switzerland as well. The point in th

I agree, I misworded the statement, the sun does indeed shine from northwest for a couple of hours in the summer months in Switzerland as well. The point in the linked article is that the grandseigneurs of Swiss topography didn't like that the usually sunny and warm south slopes show up dark and shaded in the map (and the other way around). They felt this to be unnatural and an error to be corrected. That was back in the 1920s and obviously has not been changed.