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[–] thesushicat@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

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.

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