Does a METAR report variable wind direction in a clockwise direction? Does the convention for reporting variable wind direction always use a clockwise (nautical) sense?

For example, if the wind varies between 340 degrees and 10 degrees, assuming a clockwise sense the METAR item would be 340V010, but is 010V340 also correct?
According to meteocentre.com variable wind directions are encoded in clockwise order:


  This group reports variations in wind direction. It is only included if during the 10 minute period preceding the observation the direction varies by 60 degrees or more, and the mean speed exceeds 3 knots. The two extreme directions are encoded in clockwise order.


(http://meteocentre.com/doc/metar.html)