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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Who need analog clocks?? Want the time use digital! Digital is to little use Millitary time? Millitary time is to small? Use UNIX TIME

The only thing i really use thats a dial/analog is calipers and micrometers.

Its like veirneer calipers, there just time consuming and inefficient to modern offerings

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Analog clocks are like cursive, there isn't any real world benefit so it seems like we should spend that effort on one of the many other things that schools could teach.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

As if they teach us how to read those clocks anyways

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I lied about knowing how to read these until high school, then I was too embarrassed to ask, so I learned how to read them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It floors me just how many people in this thread feel like analog clock reading is a useless/outdated skill.

But I'm of the opinion that there's no such thing as a truly outdated and useless skill, so I'm not sure I have the capability to empathize with those people...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

As a person who prefers analog clocks I disagree

What benefit does analog bring over digital other than nostalgia?
Once is objectively faster to read granularly, by the minute