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Can you teach me how to tell time? (lemmus.org)

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Haircut Practice by Adam Koford for July 15, 2024.

(Inspired by Peanuts, but with original jokes and art by Adam Koford.)

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[-] Don_Dickle@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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[-] RustyNova@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

With digital clocks.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Highschool I can understand, but how did she make it out of 1st grade when they teach you how to read a clock?

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

As a millennial i can read analoge time and i do love the look of mechanical clockwork. But whenever i actually have to read time on them i get this carsick feeling. I do not like interpreting it.

Someone who grew up on phones has digital time in their pocket at all times. There is zero reinforcement outside school teachings for such.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 1 points 3 months ago

Back in the olden days, we learned basic fractions before we learned to tell time, so we learned to think in quarters and halves of an hour. When I see a clock face, I usually just look to see what part of the hour we're in without necessarily knowing what specific minute we're at. "Oh, it's nearly half passed," is usually good enough, rather than having to be exact, "Oh, it's 4:28pm precisely." I suppose things have changed a lot since then -- when I was in school we were too busy hiding from dinosaurs to learn much else!

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I suppose that's a good theory, a lot probably has to do with our own habits of compartmentalizing time. "nearly half passed" feels weird to say for what i perceive as the second mark of a 6 long cycle or almost the third mark. Grouping minutes per 10 is very decimal system, i think i learned fractions together with clock-faces in second grade so you had to learn both at the same time while digital notations just clicked and translated better to the clock based but still decimal math questions.

When you get to minutes i am picking digital as the clear biased winner based on viewing angles in bad clock design alone, to many minutes have been wasted trying to figure them out.

[-] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

It's a surprisingly useless skill in the modern day if you have a digital watch. Most people just use their phone or a smart watch and those show time with plain digits so there's no interpretation. I forgot how to read an analogue clock face for the longest time, bought a classic watch recently and have picked up the skill again but if I didn't then I'd never use it and I'd forget it again. Despite what some people think not all skills are unforgettable, it's just a matter of how useful it is day to day over a long period.

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Don't you get it? You're always times traveling.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

I sent this message from the past.

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 4 points 3 months ago

Relevant xkcd

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

This comic illustrates the importance of learning valuable life skills before you need them.

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 3 points 3 months ago

I taught you time and I'll teach you how to travel. Surely you can figure out the rest yourself.

[-] DaGeek247@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

The characters switched sides nearly every panel and there are no word lines. I was very confused about who was talking until around the fourth read through of it. It really killed the joke because of that.

this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2024

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