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Siwastaja:
--- Quote from: themadhippy on April 02, 2023, 12:35:53 pm ---The digital clock haters would have a heart attack if they saw my kitchen clock
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You are still a prison of that ridiculous 365-24-60-60 system. How about unix timestamp instead? Maybe in hexadecimal if decimal is too normal.
Unix timestamp like second count which resets every midnight would also be interesting.
Or replacing that weird 60 thing with 100 (us mere mortals) or maybe 256 (binary thinkers). Or redefine a second so that instead of 86400 metric seconds per day, you'd have 65536 of New Seconds. 256 New Seconds would form a New Larger Time Unit, 256 of which would be a full day. Time of day could be represented as a simple 4-character hexadecimal, e.g. 7FFF would be just before noon.
2N3055:
--- Quote from: magic on April 02, 2023, 10:22:06 am ---
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on April 02, 2023, 10:05:36 am ---For me it is digital clock all the way..
I intuitively know where I am in time based on numbers.
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I wonder if you really do or if it's just Stockholm Syndrome?
How much time is it from 11:47 to 12:09? Surely you can do the math, but on analog you simply visualize the angle and it can be as meaningful as the number 22.
Of course for any sort of high precision you need the numbers, and digital provides them directly, so it wins there.
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Intuition is learned.
In your example I don't do real calculation. It is more like 10 min before and 10 min later so 20 min something (2min error is less than what you get with analog clock and parallax) .... It's guesstimating.
Most of time with estimating time you don't need exact numbers but a time budget. If I need 10 minutes to get somewhere, and need to be there at 17:00, and now is 16:3x or 16:4x something I'm good. If it is 16:5x then I'm going to be late.
With analog clock I need to remember how many degrees or rotation I need to travel and compare it visually to current angle of clock hands and target time. Or you are converting angular notation to numbers, calculate and convert back into angular.. ?
RoGeorge:
--- Quote from: themadhippy on April 02, 2023, 12:35:53 pm ---The digital clock haters would have a heart attack if they saw my kitchen clock
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That's a nice clock! :-+
Here's one to give a heart attack to any haters, analog or digital alike! ;D
3D printed sundial displays the time digitally
shapirus:
--- Quote from: Siwastaja on April 02, 2023, 01:09:42 pm ---Unix timestamp like second count which resets every midnight would also be interesting.
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I think you just gave me an idea for my next electronics DIY project.
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on April 02, 2023, 10:05:36 am ---For me it is digital clock all the way..
I intuitively know where I am in time based on numbers.
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How often do you need to know the time to the minute?
Very rarely do I benefit from knowing the time is 10:24; usually "coming up to half past 10 is sufficient".
For measuring intervals, digits can be of help. But you don't need a clock for that.
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