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Show HN: Analog Watch
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Technology has advanced enough that analog clocks have joined polaroid cameras and vinyl records assumption digital 'more advanced' than analog. unclear. How digital more 'advanced'? Is regression, not advance. Analog watch. See gap between minute hand and start of meeting. See gap get smaller. Instant. Colleague in different time zone? See hour hand -3 steps, faster than "14 - 3 is 11". If digital even have 24 hr…
The technology I was thinking of was digital screens. Analog clocks made sense when the best you could do was attach some arrows to some gears on a rotating shaft. Now we can individually toggle lights in a grid containing millions of lights. > Digital. 1 on microwave less than 99. Where else in world 1 Everywhere? 1 is always less than 99 everywhere.
I press 1 on my microware. It starts to run for 1 minute.
I press 99 on my microwave. It starts to run for 99 seconds.
1 minute < 99 seconds.
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#64This could be good for kids to learn how to read analog clocks. I remember this being something we did in school as kids... racing to read a clock faster than the other kid, to move on to the next section of an obstacle course. From what I understand that is becoming a lost skill.
> kids to learn how to read analog clocks [...] From what I understand that is becoming a lost skill. I don't think kids need to learn to read analog clocks anymore, in the same way that we don't teach kids to use slide rules. Technology has advanced enough that analog clocks have joined polaroid cameras and vinyl records in the "obsolete technology that some people use for nostalgia or fashion" category. (for the re…
By that logic they don’t need to learn much at all. They can just ask AI.
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#65you’ve basically turned ‘can you read an analog face?’ into a little daily ego check. nice.
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#66you’ve basically turned ‘can you read an analog face?’ into a little daily ego check. nice.
Ha! Very true. I embarrass myself regularly with this little game. :)
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same “kids across the street” I reference in another comment needed translation from “quarter to eleven” when they’d ask the time. Makes sense given they couldn’t read an analog face at the time.
Similarly, when I moved from the UK to Canada, people often didn't understand what I meant when I said it was "half ten", which is the common way of saying ten thirty, at least where I grew up.
Some Americans say ‘a quarter of X’ and even after 30 years I can’t remember if that’s before or after hour X.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
The technology I was thinking of was digital screens. Analog clocks made sense when the best you could do was attach some arrows to some gears on a rotating shaft. Now we can individually toggle lights in a grid containing millions of lights. > Digital. 1 on microwave less than 99. Where else in world 1 Everywhere? 1 is always less than 99 everywhere.
I press 1 on my microware. It starts to run for 1 minute. I press 99 on my microwave. It starts to run for 99 seconds. 1 minute < 99 seconds.
Yes, they're different units. Just like how 1 month is less than 99 days and 1 pound is less than 99 ounces. That isn't a digital vs analog thing.
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#69For some reason this brings back memories of looking for clocks or strangers with a watch while walking around a department store or mall
I mustve forgotten how common 'public' clocks used to be. Now... not even the clock on my local town hall is correct
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#70This fun game just made me realize that actually using analog watch does not require converting the time to HH:MM. I've been using analog watch for years, my Apple Watch face is set to analog and, apparently, I read the time as "it's almost 11", but never as "it's 10:58".
Have you ever run in to issues sharing your interpretation?
Like, people ask me the time, I say "almost 11", and they insist "but what time is it rEallY" and it's like...it really is almost 11, if you required access to the information that it is 10:58, you'd have the access to determine that. There's no world in which you need to know when it is 10:58 and do not have the ability to determine that.
If you're asking, you need exactly the general read I just offered.