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Alexstarfire ,

I’d like to see their faces when trying to read a binary clock.

notaltaccountlol ,

Haha, good one.

chocosoldier ,

oh look yet another warmed over “DAE the kids r bad” talking point that i’ve been hearing literally since i learned language.

wuphysics87 ,

If only they still taught how to read a sundial, but those damn new fangled analog clocks…

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

So many edgelords in the comments shit talking younger generations for learning different things.
Y’all sound like old farts crying about how schools stopped using slide rules and how modern music just isn’t as good.

Pilferjinx ,

I think keeping analog tech along side the digital equivalent is probably a good idea, just in case. Plus learning varied systems makes for more adaptable and smarter people.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

There is some truth to that, but this doesn’t seem like the thing to focus on, if that’s the goal. Surely there is a better subject to fulfill those needs.

Like… If we all forgot how to keep time, and we had to invent a new system of time keeping… Surely we could do better than what we have now.

ziggurat ,

You sound like someone who doesn’t know how to read an analoge clock.

I bet you could figure it out if you looked it up. And you would be better for it ❤️

EncryptKeeper ,

Probably not. I can read an analogue clock and I am no better or worse for it.

Wizard_Pope ,
@Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world avatar

What? Of course you are better off for it. You know how to read time more than one way.

EncryptKeeper ,

In what way am I better off for being able to read time in more than one way?

lightstream ,

Imagine life in the post-apocalyptic hellscape. All electronic devices have been rendered useless due to the EMPs from all the nuclear blasts. You, with your unfathomable ability to tell the time from an old wind-up clock, are viewed as a literal god among men (and women)

Wizard_Pope ,
@Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world avatar

In what way am I better off being able to read cyrilic as well as latin script? Truly a dilemma of a century.

ziggurat ,

Jokes on you, because just that you learned to read analogue clocks, makes your brain more plastic. I am sure you know what that word means, but for anyone else, plastic means adaptable. The more things you learn the easier it is to learn more things.

EncryptKeeper ,

LMAO yeah right. If it wasn’t for learning to tell analogue time, I wouldn’t have had enough brain plasticity to finish college, oh thank god for being able to tell round time. I think you might need to keep chipping away at your own brain plasticity friendo because I don’t think learning analogue time was enough for you.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

You sound like one of those edgelords who acts like grumpy old men who cry at young people for doing things differently.

I bet you could stop talking and everyone would like you better ♥️

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

No publisher, no byline, no way to know what the source of the claim is coming from.

But they did include a bit of meme art, so it seems indisputable.

ClassifiedPancake ,

When I look at a digital clock I always convert it to analogue in my head. Guess I’m that old.

LaunchesKayaks ,
@LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world avatar

I have a hard time with analog clocks because my brain scrambles shit up and I get really confused. Like, even the hands seem weird when your brain flips the numbers around

Emmie , (edited )
@Emmie@lemmings.world avatar

Analog clocks are kind of annoying tbh. Sometimes you need that little extra energy you have to spend on wondering whether it is 11:37 or 11:38 already by carefully visually bisecting the circle section between 7 and 8.
Millimetres of white space keep you wondering about the nature of analogue vs digital, discrete vs continuous and measurement uncertainty while you have better things to do but cannot just give up on OCDing whether it is exactly 11:37:30 already or maybe it is 11:37:35? And boom in these seconds you were wondering it is already pointless because it is the past and now it is time to wonder if it is 11:38:15 or 11:38:30

Whereas for digital it is just:
oh it is 11:11 on 11.11.11, how cool, life’s good

Thus it is my opinion that analogue clocks are virgins whereas digital are chads

el_abuelo ,

seconds hand: am I a joke to you?

Emmie ,
@Emmie@lemmings.world avatar

Most clocks have only two hands. Actually all school clocks I seen had only two

el_abuelo ,

There’s a huge difference between “most clocks” and “most clocks I’ve seen” - especially if your clock experience is restricted to schools.

Do you see a lot of schools? Do you know whether the schools you’ve been to all use the same supplier? How broad is your school clock experience? How many clocks do you think you’ve seen, ever?

Most clocks I’ve seen recently (I can recall exactly 1) have seconds hands. Regardless though I’m not suggesting “most clocks” have seconds hands…I’m just making a quip about how traditional, analogue, clocks have seconds hands to deal with the exact problems noted.

Emmie ,
@Emmie@lemmings.world avatar

And yet in schools they don’t have seconds. Never had

I still have ptsd thanks to that. Can you imagine? No seconds?

This is pure torture that should be forbidden by Geneva convention. So uncivilised

el_abuelo ,

I cannot fathom such deep despair for I only live in a world of seconds.

God speed my simple friend. God speed.

DNOS ,

Yeah we had a problem with the seconds hand in scools, too many students keep starting at them and we all know that if you stare at them time stops …

sheogorath ,

I love having an analog clock. It makes it feel like you have more time compared to a digital clock, making me more relaxed. For example, if the time is 12:34 PM, my subconscious will think, “Ahh, shit, 26 more minutes before 1 PM.” But with an analog clock, I read it as around half an hour before 1 PM. The visual representation also helps, like seeing that there is a distance that the hands need to travel to reach a certain time.

All in all, I very much prefer having analog clocks vs digital when given the chance.

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

I read both kinds of clocks differently and have to sit and process to translate between them. A digital clock I read as “six twenty-five AM.” An analog clock I read as “almost half-past six.” I usually don’t bother reading an analog clock at greater resolutions than a quarter hour.

Emmie ,
@Emmie@lemmings.world avatar

No.

guemax ,

I don’t think this precision is necessary. We have an analog clock in our living room, and I often quickly glance at it to get a feeling for time. I don’t care if it is 11:35 or 11:36, I just think “Oh, it’s half past eleven”. At a train station, when seconds count, analog clocks are a dumb idea. However, then I also have my (digital) watch.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

The specific time isn’t as important as how long it is until things are going down. You know the part of the clock the minute hand will be pointing at when it’s time to do shit then you got a handy little progress arc to check in on and instantly know when it’s time to do the things.

Emmie ,
@Emmie@lemmings.world avatar

So you say that your bowel movements are synchronised with your clock?

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Kinda. Finishing my coffee is synchronized with the clock. I take a shit soon after that.

Dark_Dragon ,

10:10:37

donescobar ,

Fun fact, 10:10 is the default time most photographers take photos of a clock/watch to help display all the logos and things a watch face has to offer!

Chekhovs_Gun ,

Fun fact number 2: because of this tradition, even digital clocks are sometimes shown as 10:10

AlexWIWA ,

Sounds like a fake article

Asclepiaz ,

This has got to be rage bait like the litterbox thing right?

andrefsp ,
@andrefsp@lemmy.world avatar

Yup. Of course it is and half of the comment section is falling for it.

EncryptKeeper ,

Litter box thing? I thought it was just my half wit town who believed in that bullshit.

Asclepiaz ,

My mother in law informed me that the left wants kids to have access to litter boxes and all kinds of stuff. She swears her friend said it’s true. I told her to her face that she’s been duped but you know she’s a bit too far and drank the juice.

WalnutLum ,

It floors me just how many people in this thread feel like analog clock reading is a useless/outdated skill.

But I’m of the opinion that there’s no such thing as a truly outdated and useless skill, so I’m not sure I have the capability to empathize with those people…

Stalinwolf ,
@Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca avatar

I perceive remaining time much better with an analogue clock. It’s also why I perceive time in fractions. I think it’s the superior clock, and people should probably learn to fucking read one since they’re everywhere.

I also think it’s kind of insane that we’re not at least learning how to read cursive in schools anymore. There are countless documents written in English that English speakers will not be able to properly decipher.

Tryptaminev ,

To be fair i learnt cursive and i can still not decipher most of it, even my own writing (or rather especially my own writing)

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

It’s not useless.

It’s just less useful that other things that should be taught in school. There is only so much time in a school year, and it shouldn’t replace those more useful things in the curriculum.

4lan ,

Yeah let’s teach them about credit and healthcare

4lan ,

As a person who prefers analog clocks I disagree

What benefit does analog bring over digital other than nostalgia?
Once is objectively faster to read granularly, by the minute

WalnutLum ,

For the usability of the clock, likely nothing.

I did mention In another comment that there are a number of advantages a round clockface provides to the creation of the clock, however.

bitMasque ,

So, schools aren’t even capable of teaching students how to read clocks anymore?

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Schools have more important things to teach kids with the limited time they have

bitMasque ,

No, screw that whataboutism. When I went to school, I learned so much information that is virtually useless to most people, and not nearly enough skills and knowledge that would actually be helpful in daily life. I would like to see the situation improve for future generations.

Analogue clocks are everywhere and being able to read them is still important. Besides, if schools aren’t even capable of teaching something so simple to students, I think that calls into question their ability to teach far more complex things.

4lan ,

Perhaps the fact that we pay them like 30 grand a year is a factor? That’s how much my one bedroom apartment costs 😂 there’s no money left over for food or loans or electricity or gas

Financial stress has been proven to make you dumber

bitMasque , (edited )

Tell me about it. I feel dumber by the day!

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

It’s because analog clocks are becoming obsolete. You can scream about the young peoples all you want but that’s the reality.

bitMasque ,

I’m not screaming about the young people; I was “the young people” not that long ago. Not everyone who criticizes education is an out of touch boomer resisting every societal change.

Actually, analogue clocks have been obsoleted in almost every way by digital clocks for at least half a century, as digital wristwatches first hit the market in the 1970s. And yet, analogue clocks are still found everywhere. Classes, stores, train stations, homes, offices, not to mention the majority of wristwatches, still mostly use analogue clocks. In fact, excluding screens, I wouldn’t be surprised if most people came across more analogue clocks than digital clocks on a daily basis. They’re technologically obsolete, but haven’t fallen out of use.

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

Sorry I just assumed this was more boomer shitting on the youngins like usual so that’s my bad.

bitMasque ,

It’s alright, I totally understand. There’s no shortage of those around, unfortunately.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

I have to have an analog clock within sight in the morning. When I first wake up I’m too tired and bleary eyed to think about numbers but I know what angle the minute hand will be at when I have leave to catch the bus to work. When you’re familiar with an analog clock it’s far more user friendly than looking at some numbers and have to do some math. Sure it’s simple math, but first thing in the morning, I’d rather just glance at the minute hand and when I see the angle I just know.

So I don’t think it’s not going away despite it being obsolete, it’s not going away because it’s more user friendly. Sure there’s a learning curve, but once you’ve gotten the hang of it, it’s a more efficient way for a human to get a sense of time, which in many cases is more important than having a numerical representation of time.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

How is that whataboutism?

It’s not that schools have become unable to teach kids to read analog clocks or kids have become unable to learn it. It’s not that they can’t it’s that they don’t

But speaking of whataboutism, your argument is literally “well what about all the useless stuff that I learned in school???”
How about they stop teaching useless stuff, and the first things they can throw out are cursive and analog clocks.

wuphysics87 ,

We also need to teach them how to write in cursive so they can read the declaration of independence.

guemax ,

They are creating more and more idiots out there. The trend of “Help, our students don’t understand xyz, let’s stop teaching that immediately!” is disgusting. Maybe think of teaching it in a different way or just spending more time on that topic?

nexguy ,
@nexguy@lemmy.world avatar

Wife, for years, thought the “second hand” on a clock was called that because it was the “2nd” hand on the clock…which confused her. Took her over 30 years to realize it’s the “seconds” hand because it counts seconds.

mercator_rejection ,

I guess she is not entirely off, either. It’s called that because it is the second division of an hour.

Kalysta ,

Feels more like we should teach kids better rather than remove the clocks.

4lan ,

Perhaps we should start paying teachers so that we attract more intelligent ones with more passion

PeriodicallyPedantic , (edited )

Feels like we have a limited amount of time to teach kids and we have more important things to teach them during that time

Edit:
It’d be nice if all the fuckin edgelords downvoting had the courage to say what they’d like to remove from the curriculum to make room for fuckin analog clock lessons.

OfficerBribe ,

I am pretty sure this was being taught for maybe 1 day in 1st grade after you learn about numbers. For first grader learning analogue clock probably is also a fun activity.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

If you think a first grader learns anything but swear words, after a single day of teaching, I’ve got some news for you.

HEXN3T ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You fool! I use 24H time, which requires analogue, or a really cluttered clock face. THIS is the signature look of superiority.

offspec ,

Do you mean digital?

HEXN3T ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

THIS IS NOT THE SIGNATURE LOOK OF SUPERIORITY I MEANT DIGITAL CLOCK THE GODS BE FUCKING DAMNED I’M SO EEPY AND I WANT TO DIE BY EEPING FOREVER SKULL EMOJIIIIIIIIIII

HEXN3T ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

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HEXN3T ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

HOW CAN I BE SO BRAZEN THE WALTER BREAKING BAD WHITE GIF DOESN’T EVEN EMBED PROPERLY 😭😭😭😭😭

Dagwood222 ,

There are analog clocks that show 24 hours.

alibaba.com/…/Promotional-Wall-Mounted-Clock-Chin…

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HEXN3T ,
@HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

But it looks cluttered, as previously mentioned. No way to make a circle fit more radians in the same space, unless… God, my head hurts already.

Tryptaminev ,

Your life has to be extremely messy, to not just know which part of the day you are in. For knowing what time it is, 24h is unneccesary. For communicating time it makes sense.

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