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As if they teach us how to read those clocks anyways
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.
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
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.
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Pathetic.
It floors me just how many people in this thread feel like analog clock reading is a useless/outdated skill.
But I'm of the opinion that there's no such thing as a truly outdated and useless skill, so I'm not sure I have the capability to empathize with those people...
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.
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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
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Back to kindergarten then.