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.

      • Telaneo 20 hours ago

        Tell that to my glasses. At any sort of distance where this could be an advantage, the clock is just going to be a blur anyway.

        Not to mention, how often are you in a situation where you want to know what time it is, but the nearest clock is far enough away that it being analogue becomes an actual advantage?