Can you tell the time on an analogue clock?

[bahamut@nrw.social]

@MelissaBearTrix there are people who can't?

[mbr@blahaj.zone]

@MelissaBearTrix@gives.hugz.online as a wearer of a mechanical watch, yes.

[gringlegrif@mstdn.ca]

@MelissaBearTrix Both of my children can use them too

[cimb4@norden.social]

@MelissaBearTrix i can only tell the time from midnight till noon because it only goes up to 12

[bsandro@bsd.network]

@MelissaBearTrix
I know the time faster when looking on analog clock (unlike digital).

[lilstevie@infosec.exchange]

@MelissaBearTrix I daily an automatic, so definitely.

[belousium@mastodon.social]

@MelissaBearTrix someone on twitter belives that 24 hours format is used only by soldiers 🥲

[fetchrobin@mastodon.green]

@MelissaBearTrix For what it's worth, I can't read a binary clock.

[duncan_blues@norden.social]

@MelissaBearTrix
Follow-up question:
Can you dial a number on a rotary dial phone?

[duncan_blues@norden.social]

@MelissaBearTrix yes and I deliberately installed an analog watch face on my smart watch. I much prefer a watch with analog hands over digits. My favorite wrist watch is a purely mechanical one with automatic (self winding up) gears.

[neuimneuland@mastodon.social]

@MelissaBearTrix Not exactly, it might me 12 hours off.

[athanspod@social.linux.pizza]

@MelissaBearTrix Being 54, yeah, but these days it'll take me a few moments to parse it, as I prefer digital.

[mdione@en.osm.town]

@Dexruus @MelissaBearTrix some people find reading and calculating hours easier on face clocks. See for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeopkvAP-ag&pp=ygUcdGVjaG5vbG9neSBjb25uZWN0aW9ucyBjbG9jaw%3D%3D

[sysop408@sfba.social]

@MelissaBearTrix this made me wonder about something... before mechanical time pieces, how did people keep time after the sun went down or on days cloudy enough to make a sundial unreadable?

Surely there were some attempts to keep time under those conditions!

[dreamredo@zirk.us]

@MelissaBearTrix M-maybe, with enough time, I can tell time on analog clock. ^^ It's been like 2 years since I've bought my first analogue clock and it run out of batteries twice, so I haven't been using it for a bit. But now I'm returning to it, since my smartphone runs out of batteries too fast too. ^^"

[lnr@sunny.garden]

@MelissaBearTrix My 13 year old is working on it. They kind of had that bit of school maths lessons during covid lockdown, so it didn't sink in very well, but having a big analogue clock in the living room helps a lot.

[lnr@sunny.garden]

@sysop408 @MelissaBearTrix You can use marked candles to some extent?

[w@11n.org]

analog clocks are still installed absolutely everywhere in the real world. not knowing how to read them is almost unfathomable to me, but I don't think schools around here even teach that skill any more

[seb321@toot.community]

@dwillanski @MelissaBearTrix only if you end up with space for it

[sysop408@sfba.social]

@lnr I'm not familiar with those. I presume those are candles that are made with segments indicating X number of hours?

Besides reliability how common would these be in pre-industrial times? I heard a podcast once where they tried to illustrate how expensive light was in pre-industrial times by making their own candles the old fashioned way.