Wow, arguably my favorite movie, but it took me way too long…

Nope, not really. You occasionally find them in some old government building, but only because it's always existed that way, and they just don't want to bother replacing it with a modern digital clock.

This line of thinking is the same as saying cursive writing is worth teaching.

They are very rare in public spaces over here. Pretty much only elderly have them in their homes

you ought to change your pedantry to instructed because some of them did not learn

The mid 90s, LONG after digital clocks were already ubiquitous.

Yeah but smartwatches exist and digital watch faces look awkward on the ones with a round dial. Plus I have an analog clock on the wall for when the watch is charging and I don't feel like pulling out my phone... So it's still a useful skill to have.

Obviously, it was a skill learned in early grade school and subsequently forgotten through lack of practice. You know, as stated in the article and multiple comments here.

My eyes are on my phone constantly, so no time is lost.

We could start by replacing broken ones with digital clocks using the money that would've gone towards fixing such machinery.

Please don't teach kids to insert all-caps words into their sentences. If you need to emphasize a word on the Internet, you can italicize.

This is incorrect. I’m a teacher and CONSTANTLY use the analog clock for multiple reasons.

It’s the clock of record. Doesn’t matter what YOUR particular clock says, the clock on the WALL is the time we all go on.

Irrelevant. This function would be served regardless of what type of clock is on the wall. A digital wall clock would serve just as well, and likely be less expensive to maintain than the electromechanical clocks you presumably use. (something about obsolete technologies becoming increasingly more expensive to maintain.)

Reaching into your pocket to pull out a phone and look, no matter how much you want to pretend it’s trivial, still takes SIGNIFICANTLY more effort and time than glancing at the wall. Those seconds add up.

See the above reply.

Momentum. Are you PERSONALLY going to provide the billions of dollars in funding to replace every analog clock in a public space with digital ones?

an irrelevant red herring with a false dichotomy. Clocks in public places are mostly installed by the people who maintain those public places. We all pay taxes to keep those places up. I don't need to personally fund such a project and you know it.

This is not like learning to write cursive - reading an analog clock is a trivial skill that should not take longer than a day for anyone to master.

It may be trivial, and there may be some benefit besides learning to read said clock. But like cursive, it's an irrelevant skill that generally won't be used outside of class. That's how it's like cursive. Or, if you prefer, using a slide rule. as a teacher, I am, however, sure you understand that you only have so many hours of instruction available. A day spent on this, is a day not spent on something else. You might have arguments for why this is more important than that something else, but its still an obsolete technology that, like the slide rule and fountain pens, is going away. Nostalgia is not a good enough reason to keep it around.

btw, my middle school had all digital wall clocks back in the mid 90's, and probably had them for quite some time before i was there.

I have no idea people hate on cursive (beyond the normal anti-intellectual reasons of hating the idea of teaching people things that aren't immediately applicable to industry).

Cursive didn't come out of nowhere, it fills a legitimate need, and it's a skill that expresses your individual creative self in an activity you might do everyday (maybe more!) It does wonders for your self-confidence and happiness in life to write on paper well. Paper and pen has been humanity's companion for centuries if not millennia, and one doesn't do themselves any favors by intentionally shunning their own handwriting ability. And you dont have to pick between using a keyboard and learning cursive: just do both.

Says the guy who apparently can only sting together an insult.

Stuff changes. Each generation does things differently. Stone Age people probably said the same thing when they stopped teaching their children to flintknap after everyone started using bronze tools.

We abandon old technology when it becomes obsolete, and eventually the skills associated with them. And that’s normal.

We don’t have enough hours in a lifetime to learn all the stuff we’ve abandoned, and analog clock faces are going that way. It’s okay. This is normal.

Yeah, if the sky isn't totally overcast, then you see where the sun is

Idk, I have an analog hanging up. Some guy on lemmy who can't even read analogs at a glance isn't the sole arbiter of timekeeping for everyone's house in the country.

I'm not in the USA. I do have an analog clock and watch though but they just sit in the closet.

Here's the problem, I don't have a lot of wall space and I already have clocks everywhere else. If the purpose is to know the time, then the purpose has been delivered like 5 times over. I don't need to waste wall space on an analog clock.

Who wears watches for fashion?

I don't mind ticking (up to a certain point), but my Dad used to have in his garage an analog clock that not only ticked but also had extremely audible whirring sounds. They were associated (I assume) with the gearing. Again, it never really bothered me - I didn't spend much time in the garage and I'm pretty sure that clock had been around longer than I had (which is probably why it was so noisy). I was accustomed to it.

However, I remember the day my dad got hearing aids. One of the first things he observed was how noisy the clock was, asking if it had always been that way.

My dad spent a lot of time in his garage. Pretty sure that clock didn't last out the week.

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Youre choosing to be esoteric.