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 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 the past moved to present 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

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

seconds hand: am I a joke to you?

[–] Emmie@lemmings.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmings.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmings.world 0 points 3 months ago

No.

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[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

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

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 months ago

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

[–] texasspacejoey@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Shouldnt we blame the teachers for fsiling to teach kids how to read the clock?

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