Yes, yes I can. They're much better than digital, especially when it comes to alarm clocks. My wife has a Helly Kitty analog alarm clock, bells and all, and it's chimes are nice to wake up to, as opposed to the ERN ERN ERN ERN ERN ERN ERN... of digital clocks. I still visibly cringe when I hear those it a TV show or movie.
Poll: Can you tell time on a "regular" clock?
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I can read an analog clock, but it takes longer than a digital clock -- frankly, I'm shocked that so many people have a hard time reading a digital clock. The time on the alarm clock in front of me reads 10:03 PM at the time of writing. How is parsing that into "ten oh-three PM" harder than looking at the end points of two line segments and figuring out where they lie on a circle, and then parsing that into the time I just listed?
Incidentally, the only analog clocks in the house are watches, discounting a couple of old clocks whose battery died years ago and never got replaced. Why bother when the cable box, the microwave, the stove, the coffee maker, all of the computers, and all of the alarm clocks are digital clocks, let alone the cell phones, digital watches, mp3 players, and game systems? Analog clocks, much like cursive handwriting, are a vestige of an earlier time, and truly unnecessary in the modern age.
Incidentally, the only analog clocks in the house are watches, discounting a couple of old clocks whose battery died years ago and never got replaced. Why bother when the cable box, the microwave, the stove, the coffee maker, all of the computers, and all of the alarm clocks are digital clocks, let alone the cell phones, digital watches, mp3 players, and game systems? Analog clocks, much like cursive handwriting, are a vestige of an earlier time, and truly unnecessary in the modern age.
It is. It just takes a moment or two for me to work it out. I can read a standard clock straight off. I wasn't realy around or taught the digital system until I was quite alot older, and it hasn't really stuck. I keep my phone and my laptop on the 12h system too.
I work in a taxi office where all the clocks are analogue and we take bookings in the 24 hour format.
I have no problem reading analogue clocks and know the 24 hour clock no problem.
My boss can't read analogue and doesn't know the 24 hour clock.
Viva la nepotism!
I have no problem reading analogue clocks and know the 24 hour clock no problem.
My boss can't read analogue and doesn't know the 24 hour clock.
Viva la nepotism!
It took me a little while to grasp the concept...When I was about 5.
Considering every wall mounted clock in my house is analogue, I'd damn well better be able to tell the time on them, or I'm up shit creek without a paddle.
Considering every wall mounted clock in my house is analogue, I'd damn well better be able to tell the time on them, or I'm up shit creek without a paddle.
Knowing how to "drive stick" and ride a bike are already alien concepts to the obese over-population of the US so don't be surprised if your sarcasm comes back to haunt you.JacobShaftoe said:
100 years ago every schoolchild knew 2000 words in Latin.
Big Ben isn't a clock, it's the bell... Just sayin'.
Anyway someone is bound to say that is accepted in common usage, which goes to prove when enough people are wrong they become right.
EDIT: I'm 36, of course I can tell the time, and drive a manual, and its is the possessive and it's is it is.
Anyway someone is bound to say that is accepted in common usage, which goes to prove when enough people are wrong they become right.
EDIT: I'm 36, of course I can tell the time, and drive a manual, and its is the possessive and it's is it is.
I prefer analogue clocks because for some reason i can better "feel" the time, like when a digital clock says 8:35 that's just information, but when i look at an analogue clock i "feel" that it's 8:35... Hard to explain.
I can read any form of clock. The only type that trips me up are the ones that have just 4 markers (on 12, 3, 6, and 9) and hands without anything else. I can figure it out in a couple of seconds but just the fact that I have to think it through (and estimate *gahh*) frustrates me.
Yeppers! I actually prefer analogue watches for some reason (although I think I'd be annoyed if my computer/DVD player/microwave/etc. weren't digital). I do wonder whether they still teach kids to use analogue clocks in school, though; last time one of my teachers tried that was in first grade, iirc, so 1991; twenty years (god, that makes me feel old, even though I know someone'll come up and say "you think you're old, at barely a quarter century?") is plenty of time for a practice to fall out of favor sufficiently to stop being taught as a matter of course.