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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.

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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.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

Analog clocks are like cursive, there isn’t any real world benefit so it seems like we should spend that effort on one of the many other things that schools could teach.

johannesvanderwhales ,

They look nice. Some of them anyway, not specifically school clocks which I mentally associate with “when is this day going to fucking end?” But reading a clock is not a difficult skill that takes a long time to teach.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

It’s somewhat easy to teach, but also it’s not a useful skill. If someone likes how analog clocks work, then they can learn it on their own time, since it’s easy.

nightofmichelinstars ,

on their own time

Nice

vga ,

I feel like there’s a bit of a difficulty difference. One requires basic spacial understanding. The other requires hundreds of hours of practice to become good. Nevertheless, learning both is a good idea for different reasons. Activating your brains via fine hand coordination is a great activity for children.

As a comparison, think about how much writing chinese children have to learn in school. They don’t come out as exactly poorly educated, rather vice versa. Then again, the competetiveness in chinese schools is pretty brutal, at least if I can trust what my chinese colleagues have told me.

PeriodicallyPedantic ,

I shouldn’t say there is no value in learning cursive or analog clocks, I just want to say that analog/cursive is being taught in place of more valuable lessons.

TylerDurdenJunior ,

“Roman numerals to be phased out”

… Damn gen WW1

leadore ,
@leadore@lemmy.world avatar

OK let’s have a lesson for those who find this difficult. First, remember that little kids pick this up quickly and easily, so you can too!

We all know there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day, right? and that the day is divided into the a.m. of 12 hours and the p.m. of 12 hours.

So analog clocks show those 12 hours as the numbers 1-12 evenly spaced around the clock face. Now look a little closer and you see it’s also divided into 60 marks with a tick mark for each of the 60 seconds/minute or 60 minutes/hour. Hang on, we’re almost there!

The little hand points to the HOUR number (1-12). If it’s in between two numbers, that means the time is in between those two hours.

The big hand points to the MINUTE tick mark. Notice that the 1-12 numbers coincide with each 5th tick mark so it’s easy to count them. Just count by 5’s! So if the big hand is between the 3 and the 4, that means the minute of the hour is between 15 and 20, look at which tick mark for the exact minute.

Now, can you figure out how the second hand works? Good! Kindergarten dismissed!

/s

Toribor ,
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

I can tell the time perfectly well unless someone asks me what time it is. Then my brain is completely useless and I just have to twist my wrist around awkwardly to show them.

2ugly2live ,
@2ugly2live@lemmy.world avatar

When I worked data entry, there was a chart for cursive as people couldn’t understand cursive writing, and these were adults. I think this may check out (not because they’re lacking, but because they probably weren’t taught).

Spacehooks ,

Yeah but people’s cursive is more inconsistent than print. It can be super bad and print is more practical. You could say it’s Same with a digital clock but an analog clock is always the same with circle and 2 hands while I don’t know what characters people are trying to do with cursive.

2ugly2live ,
@2ugly2live@lemmy.world avatar

I agree that it takes practice, but I wasn’t aware (until that job) that most people learned how to write their name only. I had to learn it when I was in 2nd or 3rd, then I kept it up because note taking was faster. But I don’t think it’s stopping anyone from doing anything unless you’re going through hand written docs all the time. Just surprised me at the time.

lolcatnip ,

I know how to read and write in cursive but there are still a lot of people whose handwriting I can’t read because it’s so sloppy and idiosyncratic. A chart wouldn’t help me.

2ugly2live ,
@2ugly2live@lemmy.world avatar

That’s true. But the chart was more like, “this is what cursive looks like” sort of thing. Like, some people couldn’t recognize a curve “G” or other “different” letters. But I’ve certainly seen some cursive that might as well have been an alien language 🤣

LesserAbe ,

I learned cursive but I’m sure have forgotten how to write it, especially some of the capital letters. Thing is learning it now is really just for backwards compatibility. Yes, it’s faster to write in cursive when writing by hand, but how often is that coming up these days, for most people?

2ugly2live ,
@2ugly2live@lemmy.world avatar

Not often I think, unless you read a lot of historical documents/letters. But even a lot of those are transcribed these days. So likely only people working with doctors (and even then, probably just specific medications). Outside of the data entry job, I don’t think it’s come up in my life outside of school.

Catsrules ,

Yeah I am way out of practice in my cursive. I can still read it but it wouldn’t come naturally. Cursive was pounded into my head at a young age. Teachers saying we would used it every day in our lives. That was probably true for them but it was certainly not true for me.

The only time I ever use cursive is signing my name. The only time I read cursive is a letter from my grandparents once they pass that would basically be the end of my cursive reading.

Zorsith ,
@Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

If I don’t have access to a keyboard something has gone catastrophically wrong (I work in IT)

Zoboomafoo ,

Time’s an illusion anyways, might as well

SteveFromMySpace ,

Lunchtime doubly so

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

You failed as a teacher, volume 1

sol6_vi ,
@sol6_vi@lemmy.world avatar

Who cares. Analog audio, video, phones, all out the window. Next people will be complaining people don’t even know anything about vacuum tubes. Digital clocks are easier to read and make more fuckin sense. Leave the kids alone. 🙄🙄🙄

Korrok ,

I’m a millenial and I can read analog clocks, but it takes me a few seconds, it’s not as instant as with digital ones.

Venator ,

Especially when they have no numbers.

nexussapphire ,

It was the only way I could tell how much time is left, I didn’t have a phone till highschool. In school counting down the second till school was over was so crucial.

chocosoldier ,

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

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

sirico ,
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

Ugh kids these days can’t even prime a Magneto What’s next morse code!?!

Linktank ,

Pathetic.

thesushicat ,

It’s true. I teach college kids, and a couple of years ago my class was taking a midterm. The room didn’t have a clock so I put my watch on the document camera display so they’d know how much time was left. A girl in the front row asked me what time it was, because she couldn’t tell time. After she turned in her test, thinking she must be kind of embarrassed about this, I told her I’d be happy to teach her how to tell time. She gave me a look like “ok, boomer” and said no thanks.

SkunkWorkz ,

Yeah that girl is going places in life. Though probably not on time.

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