Comment by Telaneo

Comment by Telaneo 2 days ago

11 replies

I can read analogue clocks only because I was taught in school, and prefer digital ones for all use cases I have myself (other than maybe decorative?), and even when I do read an analogue clock face, I convert that to digital time in my head before I can properly parse it, so I have a hard time blaming them. There aren't many analogue clock faces I need to read in my life, and there are probably even less in theirs. The last time I strictly needed to be able to read one was, funnily enough, teaching kids how to read one.

inimino 2 days ago

> I convert that to digital time in my head

What? They are the same thing.

  • Telaneo 2 days ago

    Not to other people I've talked to.

    I'm the wrong person to ask this about, since I prefer digital time, so time is just a number to me. But Technology Connections made a video atleast talking about it,[1] so hopefully that get part of the point across. To him and plenty of other analogue-first people, time is a progress bar, or a chart, or something along those lines, and that's the natural way to perceive time, and converting it to a number is meaningless beyond expressing it as digital time.

    [1] https://youtu.be/NeopkvAP-ag

    • wkat4242 a day ago

      Totally agree. I do the same.

      The only reason we have analog clocks is because digital ones were much harder to build. That time is of course over for good. It was a compromise imposed by limited technology.

      • 1718627440 a day ago

        Not really, analog clocks are readable over a much longer distance, because seeing an angle needs much less information, than parsing glyphs.