> If you want it readable, why analog in the first place?
Granting that not everyone learns to "tell time" these days, for those who did, the watch hands instantly convey the (12-hour) time by their positions.
That is, as long as one of the hands is sufficiently longer than the other. Years ago I woke up, looked at my analog watch, saw it was 6:55 a.m., got up, and started shaving, thinking I'd overslept. A few minutes later I looked again: It was actually 10:45 p.m.; I'd been asleep for maybe 30 minutes and had misread the hands. (This was during an at-sea period in the Navy, during which as usual we were all running on not a lot of sleep.)
Incidentally, from your handle, are you a Seekers fan?
Granting that not everyone learns to "tell time" these days
The kids across the street, now 13 and 9, have no idea or have to translate when they ask the time and I tell them it's "ten 'til eleven" or summat. I'm not 100% sure they can read an analog dial without giving it some thought. Smart kids, too, I just don't think there are a lot of analog clocks in their life. The only analog clock in my life is the watch face on my Apple Watch, and I often debate going digital full-time on that one.
In a similar vein, I'm approaching retirement and I can't fully write cursive anymore, and what little is left is sloooow.
I played around with a lot of digital and verbal clock faces when I got my smart watch, but keep coming back to an analog face because it really helps me visualize how time is passing, or how much time I have before I have to do something. I'm not great at math, so maybe it's easier for me to process the change in angle of the minute hand instead of adding or subtracting from a number.
Now that you mention it, there aren't many analog clocks in my house anymore. My grandfather clock needs a spring replaced so it stands still until I can get around to doing that (again), and I don't bother winding my cuckoo clock most days. The rest are mostly watches I don't wear unless my smart watch is charging or too delicate for whatever I'm doing.
I'm just about old enough that I kind of unlearned reading the clock again. I can sure do it, but on blank clock faces without hour marks I have to think a bit.
Granting that not everyone learns to "tell time" these days, for those who did, the watch hands instantly convey the (12-hour) time by their positions.
That is, as long as one of the hands is sufficiently longer than the other. Years ago I woke up, looked at my analog watch, saw it was 6:55 a.m., got up, and started shaving, thinking I'd overslept. A few minutes later I looked again: It was actually 10:45 p.m.; I'd been asleep for maybe 30 minutes and had misread the hands. (This was during an at-sea period in the Navy, during which as usual we were all running on not a lot of sleep.)
Incidentally, from your handle, are you a Seekers fan?
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