Can you tell the time on an analogue clock?

[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.

[dexruus@chaos.social]

@mdione @MelissaBearTrix Yeah, thats true and I basically forgot that @TechConnectify has made a video (that I even watched) about that. But to make a point; I never spoke about "banning" the technology either.
Tbh "analogue" watches are also somewhat of an "Accessibility"-layer, since technically "reading" the clock is easier with clockhands, when it comes to disabilities (like memory issues or impairment of vision/brain function, or just simple dyslexia).

And I am ALWAYS for accessibility.

[seb321@toot.community]

@dwillanski @MelissaBearTrix otherwise you need two lots of each number up to twelve

[maddiem4@raphus.social]

@MelissaBearTrix Sometimes I'm embarrassed at how slow I am at reading analogue time, but I suppose I should give myself credit that I *am* still in the demographic of people who manage to get there in the end

[iris@neuromatch.social]

@MelissaBearTrix yes, but I've had a student ask me during a proctored test what time it was, because they couldn't read the clock. I was shocked for a moment, and then realized, this is not what they're being tested on and I should make every effort to remove this barrier. So that's my take on it, in every circumstance where it's not my business, which so far is all of them.

[steveclough@metalhead.club]

@MelissaBearTrix I think it is a bit late for your sanity....

[dxzdb@mastodon.social]

@paulk @MelissaBearTrix even if you have to tell someone else the time?

[aanee@mastodon.online]

@MelissaBearTrix Aah, you mean a normal non-digital clock, Ofc. Though I read it like a 24h one.