I’ve had, and honestly still do have issue with reading it rather than understanding. At least the way I was taught, it just sounds really weird, like 15:40 being “5 minutes till quarter to 4 in the afternoon”.
I don’t need to think about “fifteen forty”.
But why add unnecessary complexity?
Like analog clocks are fine, they show time progress in a way digital don’t.
But why read it in that more convoluted way? Like, I can tell you that you have 10100bin seconds to answer some question, and you can tell that’s 20 seconds, but why the fuck do it that way. The only time it’s “five minutes till quarter to four in the afternoon” rather than 15:40 is when writing an assay, perhaps.
Probably not – time isn’t that relevant before society puts you on the path towards hourly labor. I learned in elementary, but then I also grew up with digital clocks like most folks under 50.
Edit: apparently we have either a lot of on-the-clock preschoolers or folks who don’t know when digital clock radios were invented. Perhaps both. If you cared about the clock time before you were 5 I feel sorry for you.
It’s only happened twice, but I’ve run into kids who couldn’t read an analog clock. You know what I did?
I taught them. It took, like, 30 seconds. I know it took 30 seconds because I was wearing a goddamn watch.
Still can’t understand how any kid cannot do it. Isn’t that something you learn from your parents before you even go to school
… Unless the parents are idiots as well.
No doubt the parents are idiots just like their kids
Reversed Darwin. More and more of these.
I remember learning in second grade.
The older you are the more you actually learned in school.
I think I learned how to read a clock in preschool, not from my parents
I’ve had, and honestly still do have issue with reading it rather than understanding. At least the way I was taught, it just sounds really weird, like 15:40 being “5 minutes till quarter to 4 in the afternoon”.
I don’t need to think about “fifteen forty”.
thinking is hard
But why add unnecessary complexity?
Like analog clocks are fine, they show time progress in a way digital don’t.
But why read it in that more convoluted way? Like, I can tell you that you have 10100bin seconds to answer some question, and you can tell that’s 20 seconds, but why the fuck do it that way. The only time it’s “five minutes till quarter to four in the afternoon” rather than 15:40 is when writing an assay, perhaps.
Probably not – time isn’t that relevant before society puts you on the path towards hourly labor. I learned in elementary, but then I also grew up with digital clocks like most folks under 50.
Edit: apparently we have either a lot of on-the-clock preschoolers or folks who don’t know when digital clock radios were invented. Perhaps both. If you cared about the clock time before you were 5 I feel sorry for you.
we yearned for the mines… but we didn’t need no stinking clock because it was always dark.
canary sure was useful though.