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• foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  NGL, wind up analog clocks are useful in places where the power goes out often. I have a 7-day grandfather clock and it’s been a godsend when northeasters turn into ice storms that take down the power for days…

  (Northern New England had wretched winter weather some years)

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t have a horse in this race, but your argument doesn’t hold up. If you want a way to tell the time during a power outage, you don’t need an analogue clock, you need one that runs on batteries.

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    • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m also horseless, but their analog clock is a wind-up, no batteries required. So if you’re snowed in and can’t get to the store, it’s one less thing that will take up batteries.

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      • Comrade_Spood@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I have a watch that is piwered by movement, and it is analog. Love the thing cause I don’t have to remember to charge it or replace the batteries, it charges when I wear it. However if I forget to wear it it will likely die. But then I just give it a good shake and update the time.

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      • Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I don’t know why you would need a clock if you’re trapped in your house. Maybe if you have to take pills at a specific time but usually you can be off by an hour or two which I can tell simply by looking outside and sensing time internally.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve always wanted one of these but really only to remind me of my grandparents house from when I was a kid

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• olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Of course it’s still needed. There still exist analog clocks almost everywhere. (At least in my country)

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• GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s an easy way to introduce fractions, especially since it’s common to hear/say it’s a quarter passed 2, half passed 5, and a quarter to 9.

  Also teaches multiples, since the numbers on the clock represent multiples of 5.

  Helps with directions, clockwise is when the hands spin to the right and counter-clockwise to the left. You’d be amazed how many students can’t tell their left from right.

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  • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You’d be amazed how many students can’t tell their left from right.

    wtf? this goes back further than analogue clocks… we used to have a ribbon on one hand until we learned to distinguish right from left

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    • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I understand that learning left from right is a skill to learn. However, it was rare for a teenager to be unable to distinguish their left from right, unlike today.

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      • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        so kids these days are no longer taught that two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do? wild

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