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ClassifiedPancake ,

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

Steamymoomilk ,

Who need analog clocks?? Want the time use digital! Digital is to little use Millitary time? Millitary time is to small? Use UNIX TIME

The only thing i really use thats a dial/analog is calipers and micrometers.

Its like veirneer calipers, there just time consuming and inefficient to modern offerings

luciferofastora ,

it’s now 18:53, and while I respect that it seems nonsensical when parsed as a number, I find 1853 more convenient to write on mobile (and it does save two keystrokes on keyboard too).

Miss me with that “1-1=12” shit.

Steamymoomilk ,

Question one for Advanced Algebra

Solve for time.

Fosheze ,

Whenever somebody asks you what time it is, tell them in UNIX time. Become ungovernable.

Alexstarfire ,

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

notaltaccountlol ,

Haha, good one.

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It floors me just how many people in this thread feel like analog clock reading is a useless/outdated skill.

But I’m of the opinion that there’s no such thing as a truly outdated and useless skill, so I’m not sure I have the capability to empathize with those people…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

tfw_no_toiletpaper ,

Posted in r/Funnymemes

Daxtron2 ,

This would be gen alpha at this point no?

Carlo ,

Ah yes, another casus belli for the generation war. The whole concept of generalizing an entire cohort of humanity is bogus. Just another nonsense distraction to generate a bunch of clickbait bullshit articles, and get people angry at the young or the old, instead of the rich. No war but the class war.

Edit: Not really directed at you, OP.

leadore , (edited )
@leadore@lemmy.world avatar

Anyone who wants to understand how to read an analog clock can learn it in two minutes, it’s not like you need to be taught in school. edit to add: My brother recently told me that he was at the library and his friend’s teenage daughter looked at the analog clock and said indignantly “I can’t read that!” So apparently it is true that people aren’t learning simple skills like this.

lud ,

I personally know how to read an analog watch but I do it so rarely that it takes a bit of time thinking before I figure it out and convert it to 24 hour time. Because I use digital time absolutely everywhere and never analog time.

Hell I even got a digital wrist watch, mostly because it’s easier and faster to read for me but also because it’s more accurate. I will admit that the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy also played a role in the purchase.

leadore ,
@leadore@lemmy.world avatar

Digital vs. analog watches that run on batteries are no more or less accurate because of how the time is displayed. I have a digital clock display on my battery-powered cordless phone (yes I also have a landline) that is constantly plugged into a power source and it loses a minute or two every day. Your computer and phone only keep displaying the correct time because they frequently update themselves from an online source.

lud ,

My watch frequently (daily but only if I’m sleeping with it, for some reason) updates itself via radio. It’s generally accurate to a second or maybe even half a second. But the main reason, It’s easier to tell exactly what the time is in seconds when it’s digital compared to a fast spinning stick.

doggle ,

Honest question; why would they? Digital clocks and watches are have been cheaper and more accurate (and as a result more ubiquitous) for many years now. I think there’s a strong argument that analogue clocks are obsolete, and that’s why teens and kids aren’t learning to read them.

bleistift2 ,

Are all public clocks in the US digital clocks? Off the top of my head, I can tell you 4 locations within walking distance that have analog clocks, one of them being the train station.

leadore ,
@leadore@lemmy.world avatar

Nope, it still seems like most of the ones I see are analog, as in my library example. Probably most people ignore them and just check their phones for the time since they are constantly looking at them anyway.

can ,

The point is the instinct to check phone for the time is so strong that they’re not looking around for clocks.

linkhidalgogato ,

1 if u dont kids how to do a thing they dont learn

2 and more importantly; finally, analog clocks have no place in our wold and every last one should be in trash they serve literally no purpose, i have always hated them and i will delight in their death.

Iampossiblyatwork ,

What if I want to know the time?

linkhidalgogato ,

digital clocks will rule the world our time will come ur children’s children wont even say clockwise and anti clockwise cuz they wont know what those are

Iampossiblyatwork ,

I am curious how else we would describe the direction of circular motion

linkhidalgogato ,

idk i was gonna say what they would say instead but the i realize i have no idea what they could say.

sepiroth154 ,

Isn’t it their job to teach them then?

Etterra ,

Back to kindergarten then.

DNOS ,

Guys lets be honest why point at small Numbers which you have to read in a specific sequence while doing some math when you can easily and nowadays probably more efficiently (paper-ink) display them… Analog clocks are going to disappear and people will watch at them with the same eyes as we watch a sundial…(Btw I had to search for the translation of the world sundial that’s how common it is … 😉)
I can ready It but i get teens Who dont

Wizard_Pope ,
@Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world avatar

They should just be taught how to read time in school

DNOS ,

Yeah or Just replace every old watch 😉

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Analog clocks are a better representation of how we think of time than a digital clock.

If someone looks and immediately afterwards someone asks them for the time, they will look at their watch again. The number isn’t really what matters, it’s “how long until X will happen” that matters more.

You know you’re meeting is at 10:30, you see it’s 9:55. You know it’s about a half hour until the meeting, and the meeting will happen when that big hand gets to the bottom. The numbers themselves won’t do that for you, you have to think 60 minutes in an hour, 60-5 = 5 + 30 = 35 minutes away. When you check the digital clock again you see 10:17, so you have to think 30-17 = 13 minutes until the meeting. But with an analog clock it’s like a reusable progress bar (well progress arc to be more accurate). Quick glance and you see how far the minute hand has to go and you’re good.

Sure the mental math needed to get a sense of time with a digital clock isn’t all that hard. But it is an additional step over the adhoc progress arcs that analog clocks provide.

Digital clocks are fine and all, but are just slightly worse than analog clocks. Just how technology is going I guess, always giving us something that’s technically more advanced but worse for humans to interface with.

GelatinGeorge ,

Er, what? If I look at the clock and see it’s 0955 I know exactly that it’s 35 minutes. Same for every other example you give. If it’s 1252, it’s so easy to add 8 minutes then add whatever it is more. And you can do that for any time. Say 1017. “Oh no!” Never fear, the just add it to the time wangs are here: +13 to 30 and woah! Easy, foolproof and actually intuitive

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

1030-955=75. So intuitively, it would be 75 minutes until the meeting. Oh wait… maybe it’s not intuitive?

210 degree arc is always going to be 35 minutes. Whether it’s the 35 minutes from 9:55 to 10:30 or 9:50 to 10:25 or 3:15 to 3:50 or whatever. Sure you have to get used to the arcs. But once you do, it’s a quick glance at the minute hand and seeing how far away it is from the time of the meeting (or whatever the next thing is). Time for a computer is a number, time for a human is how long until a thing is going to happen.

jsomae ,

I assume replacing them with digital? It’s just an upgrade in technology.

kemsat ,

I lied about knowing how to read these until high school, then I was too embarrassed to ask, so I learned how to read them.

Lila_Uraraka ,

As if they teach us how to read those clocks anyways

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