:lol: at people calling analog clocks obsolete. They aren't going anywhere anytime soon kids.KHAndAnime
I don't think so either. They do their job just as well as digital clocks (whether or not they do the job BETTER) and they also have the advantage of not being inherently butt-ugly.
I could see analog clocks getting phased out if they didn't tell time as well as digitital clocks. But for the VAST majority of applications, the useful accuracy of analog clocks is absolutely no better than the useful accuracy for digital clocks.
I could see analog clocks getting phased out if they were hard to learn. But they aren't. It literally takes well under one goddamned minute to teach someone how to read an analog clock. Beyond that, it doesn't even need to be taught. One can quickly see how that works simply by knowing what time it is and then looking at an analog clock. Frankly, if I were in a place in which an analog clock was hanging on the wall and I forgot to bring my cell phone with me, I'd be EMBARASSED to ask someone for the time. As long as I know the relatively APPROXIMATE time, and as long as there's an actual working clock hanging on the wall of the bank/classroom/etc, then one should be easily able to "learn" how to read an analog clock simply by SEEING an analog clock that is set to the correct time. So yeah...it's not even hard to learn how to read an analog clock. Anyone standing in line at the bank can teach themselves that **** on their own simply by looking at the clock while they're waiting in line.
Look...if someone simply prefers digital clocks as a personal preference, that's fine. But sticking to digital clocks because the person can't read an analog clock is like a dude wearing shoes with velcro because he doesn't know how to tie his ****ing shoelaces. Buy the velcro shoes if you think they're better, but don't buy them because you don't know how to tie a ****ing shoelace. Buy a digital clock because it's a better clock, not because you can't even freaking figure out HOW to read an analog clock.
Hell..I'm not even saying that analog clocks are inherently better. I'm saying that they are still common enough, and take so little goddamn effort to learn how to read, that there's absolutely no goddamn reason whatsoever for people not using them because they don't know how to read them. Don't use them because you simply don't like them, that's fine. But refusing to use them because YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THEM is seriously just plain pathetic. It's not goddamn rocket science. It's a ****ing clock. Do you know approximately what time it is, within the nearest hour? Then simply look at a freaking analog clock and it'll take about a minute to teach yourself how to read them. Not PREFERRING analog clocks is okay, not LIKING analog clocks is okay. But NOT BEING ****ING ABLE TO READ THEM is seriously just incredibly sad and lazy. They're still all over the place, how about actually spending 30 freaking seconds LOOKING at one? That's really about all that's required to know how to use one, provided that the clock is close to the actual time and that you know approximately what the time is.
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