we have analog clocks because my wife has forbidden us from living in a minimalist class and chrome cube where the only decoration is neon lighting and we only wear latex body suits and sunglasses indoors 😿
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AA5B@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For the people where 24h time is normal …. Is that a more recent development it’s the ubiquity of digital clocks, or would people have also used 24h time with analog clocks, despite them not having a way to display that?
—- looking around, realizing I still hav analog clocks all over because I wanted my kids to be familiar with them. That boat sailed
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
AA5B@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You have a very cool picture of the future though
Syndic@feddit.de 11 months ago
For the people where 24h time is normal …. Is that a more recent development it’s the ubiquity of digital clocks, or would people have also used 24h time with analog clocks, despite them not having a way to display that?
I’ve been born in central Europe in the 80’s before digital clocks became the norm. 24h was normal even then when writing the precise time. For example in TV schedules. When talking we normally use 12h but without adding AM or PM as it most often is obvious from the context. When it’s not then we add “in the morning” “at night”. Actually speaking time in a 24h format is very rare.
AA5B@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fascinating. Here in the US it seems similar when talking, but I almost never see 24 hour time, even in writing, except in “military” or similar context. Plus I really haven’t noticed any changes in these habits during my adult lifetime
Strobelt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In Brazil it has just always been this way. We have normal 12h clock faces and we are used to both 24h and 12h time. The curious thing is that we are used to read and write in 24h, but in speaking the vast majority uses 12h. Probably because it’s shorter to say “nove e meia” than “vinte e uma e trinta” for 09:30/21:30
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I have owned multiple analog watches with a 24 hour face so it isn’t like they don’t exist they just are far from common place.
netburnr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So 30 minutes is 12?
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Yes, like this - www.aaawatchclub.com/images/1003b24pbd_1000.jpg
SCB@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s a sexy watch.
CorneliusTalmadge@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There are watches that have an actual 24hr face as you describe the normal 6 position is 12 and 12 becomes 24. Which I think are fairly uncommon, I don’t recall ever seeing one in person.
More common to just see analog watches with dual time markings say a 24 under the 12.
An image search along the lines of “24hr watch face” will show some examples.
theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Yes they are pretty uncommon, all the ones I have owned were old Russian ones that could be pretty unreliable and watch makers never wanted to touch them in terms of repairing them, hence why I have had a few. I believe the ones I had were made by ‘Raketa’
njordomir@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As someone who really needs to visualize my day, I love phone and watch apps that use a 24h watch face. It’s very logical to display sunrise/sunset times and I even found an app that displays my calendar events as time slices in my clock pie.
Always wanted to pick up a cool analog 24h watch too.