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smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like I’m going insane reading these comments about how difficult it is to read analog clocks,

  These comments are made by lazy idiots arguing that there is nothing wrong with being lazy idiot.

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  • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t understand how you could possibly classify looking at a clock as lazy.

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    • FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Read again.

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      • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I just don’t see what any of this has to do with laziness.

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• markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am in the transition age range of people who have trouble reading analog clocks and I must admit I had trouble with it until I started wearing a watch as an accessory as a teenager. The issue isn’t that it’s hard, it’s just something that you need practice at to do quickly and a lot of young people just don’t look at analog clocks to tell time very often. It’s not a matter of being stupid or not being taught how to do it, it’s like mental “muscle memory” that just isn’t built up in a world where digital clocks are everywhere, including in your pocket 24/7

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  • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Watches were pretty ubiquitous before the smart phone was popularized. Though, digital watches were common since the '80s, so I’m not sure how much that really figures in. There is some truth, though, in needing to regularly do it to keep the skill.

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• Jyrdano@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can confirm. You are not insane.

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• Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Clock reading was covered in kindergarten and cursive writing taught in 1st grade. These were some of the first wrinkles pushed into our little growing brains in the early 80s by school. That these things are no longer being taught so early explains why so many people are willing to immediately accept the Google AI overview as gospel and are wearing Crocs everywhere they go.

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  • AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    and are wearing Crocs everywhere they go.

    Oooh, that’s harsh.

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  • smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    FWIW, I went to school in mid-2000. My sibling even later. They still taught it back then, and at least here, I am pretty sure they still do. (And why would they not, after all…)

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Throughout middle school and high school, my bedroom clock was one of these, just the mechanism, no face, no numbers, hanging off the edge of a shelf. I had no trouble reading it. I still can easily read an analog clock with no numbers or any face marks.

  Clock parts

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Learning to read the clock was like… A couple of lessons and some homework in the 2nd grade, and everyone got it.

  Yes, this meme is pretty obviously fake.

  www.snopes.com/…/schools-removing-analog-clocks/

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• tlmcleod@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How tf are we in 2025 and people are still spouting off as if all humans have the same brain capacity and capability?

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  • smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Literally noone I know in real life has any problem whatsoever reading analog clocks, no matter the “brain capacity”, neuro-typicality, state of drunkenness,… It is an extremely simple “skill”.

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• buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t know, I’ve never particularly liked analogue clocks. I don’t think I ever thought of them as difficult to read, but it’s far superior to look at an exact number like digital usually features.

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  • smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Disagree - it rarely matters to me if it’s 13:24:56 or 13:25:05, but I do find the instant and intuitive gauging of time deltas super useful (as in, how long it’s going to be on to the full hour / two quarter past / … ). Not saying you can’t get that info from a digital clock as well, of course you can; but the physically of analog clocks lends a good bit of intuition, I feel.

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    • Redex68@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I get that, but I personally find that I often do care about the exact time, down to the minutes, and that’s harder to track with an analogue clock. I don’t have particular problems in reading them, I just often prefer digital clocks.

      But I will agree that I feel analogue clocks give a better vibe of the time, since its basically a pie chart of how far you are in the day.

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      • smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah, vibe of the time is a good description

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    • buttnugget@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That does make sense.

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• GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lemmites will never miss an opportunity to make things difficult to draw attention to themselves.

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• Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah but the “hard” work of reading an analog clock apparently offends some people. Just more of “feelings” nonsense vs. facts

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• ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m 35. Math major. Work in STEAM. Well educated.

  I hate analogue clocks. Why use subpar way of reading time if digital is so much better?

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  • smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because it’s not! Glad to help you clear that up.

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• wischi@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To be fair if you are never exposed to it (and judging by the comments that seems to have happened in the US) you can’t tell the time by “just looking at it”. But analog clocks are objectively simpler to teach to children (let’s say three to eight years old).

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• Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes.

  I used to have some complex thinking I was slow at reading time in an analog watch, these days I feel much more confident.

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• sommerset@thelemmy.club ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Man I always felt analog clocks are just old age. I felt like that for about 30 years

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• GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lemmites love to make things more difficult than they need to be.

  Bo

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