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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (4 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.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I feel like there's a bit of a difficulty difference. One requires basic spacial understanding. The other requires hundreds of hours of practice to become good. Nevertheless, learning both is a good idea for different reasons. Activating your brains via fine hand coordination is a great activity for children.

As a comparison, think about how much writing chinese children have to learn in school. They don't come out as exactly poorly educated, rather vice versa. Then again, the competetiveness in chinese schools is pretty brutal, at least if I can trust what my chinese colleagues have told me.

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[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 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

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's now 18:53, and while I respect that it seems nonsensical when parsed as a number, I find 1853 more convenient to write on mobile (and it does save two keystrokes on keyboard too).

Miss me with that "1-1=12" shit.

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Question one for Advanced Algebra

Solve for time.

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Anyone who wants to understand how to read an analog clock can learn it in two minutes, it's not like you need to be taught in school. edit to add: My brother recently told me that he was at the library and his friend's teenage daughter looked at the analog clock and said indignantly "I can't read that!" So apparently it is true that people aren't learning simple skills like this.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Honest question; why would they? Digital clocks and watches are have been cheaper and more accurate (and as a result more ubiquitous) for many years now. I think there's a strong argument that analogue clocks are obsolete, and that's why teens and kids aren't learning to read them.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are all public clocks in the US digital clocks? Off the top of my head, I can tell you 4 locations within walking distance that have analog clocks, one of them being the train station.

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