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[mastahcheese]

I have trouble reading them now, too. I used to have such ease with them, but now I have to stop everything I'm doing and take 15 seconds to figure it out now.

[Loud Whispers]

In all honesty, I do occasionally blank on reading analogue clocks because of how ubiquitous digital has become.

Shun the digital, embrace that which is mechanical. They will call you a technological Philistine, but who will sleep soundly under the watchful haze of those... Their alarms that seep into your every day life, making you dependent. Until one day - you can tell the time no more outside the digital realm. Entirely at the mercy at the digital clock's control, your every waking moment dictated by the beep of the clock forever on 6:00 A.M.

Remember these analogue clocks, for they were all that could have saved us.

[Screen fades to black under the blinking red digital clock's digits].

[Mr Space Cat]

Who even uses analog clocks anymore, anyway? Those things are so obsolete.

Why not use analog clocks? They work. might be slightly less accurate but accuracy is usually not required 100% of your time all the time.

I have no problem reading analog clocks, myself. Then again, I wear an analog watch.

[Putnam]

Who even uses analog clocks anymore, anyway? Those things are so obsolete.

Why not use analog clocks?

obsolescence

I mean, TBH, learning to analog has been very useful to me. Where I live, you can see at a glance where north is, as the hills to the north are aligned wonderfully well in the east-west direction. Due to this, telling time is as simple as looking at your shadow. I've still had people asking me what time it is, only for me to look at the ground and say "eh, about 5:20?" and the time ends up being something like 5:22 or similar.

[Bauglir]

All the wall clocks in my place of employment are analogue, so I am constantly trained in this highly secret art.

[Slayerhero90]

Analogue clocks are pretty, that's why you use them.

[Frumple]

All the wall clocks in my place of employment are analogue, so I am constantly trained in this highly secret art.

Yeeaaahh... I think I've been in only two or three schools (out of maybe a dozen or so, though several of those just visiting) so far that had digital clocks, and even some of those didn't have full coverage. Still mostly analog. Mostly analog in general, really, in my area, though it's not too uncommon to have both. North Florida is apparently still lagging behind in updating timekeeping methods. Honestly, it's sometimes not quite the same without that omnipresent tick tick tick.

... seriously though, it's not like it's amazingly difficult to read 'em or anything. Up is 12, down is 6, know your clockwise, the rest falls in place~

[Dutchling]

Are there non-analogue wall clocks?

[Frumple]

Yup. I've probably seen a good half dozen different styles, without even actively looking for 'em. Most ubiquitous I've seen is those... I think radio? Maybe wi-fi. Updated atomic ones. Usually grey border, black strips in it. Calculator-like screen thingy. Gives time, date, sometimes temperature. Kinda' nifty, really.

[Dutchling]

Oh we wait have one of those at home. But I never uses it to check the time. Just outside humidity and stuff.

[Darvi]

I had a digital projected roof clock. Does that count?

[Mr Space Cat]

After watching videos of a slow loris i was reminded of a certain animal. I looked it up in google images just to see if it still creeped me out.

Spoiler: aye-aye, aye-ayes are still scary cap'n (click to show/hide)

[BlackFlyme]

After watching videos of a slow loris i was reminded of a certain animal. I looked it up in google images just to see if it still creeped me out.

Spoiler: aye-aye, aye-ayes are still scary cap'n (click to show/hide)

0.0

To put it politely, it looks like a vampire-bat and a feral cat had a child that was born pre-maturely. And has a crippling addiction to hard drugs.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Mᴇᴛʜ. Nᴏᴛ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴏɴᴄᴇ.

[Rose]

I find digital clocks harder to read than analog, mainly because I store time in my head as a numberless concept that translates easier from an analog clock than a digital one.

\_ translates in my head easier to almost three than 2:50

[Darvi]

What're you talking about that clearly is 14:50. I mean it is obvious nobody looks at a clock at 3AM.