Can you tell the time?

I can tell the time, I don't like analogue clocks. Takes me much longer to work out the time, takes even longer to work out the exact time.
 
I remember in school in the 80s that kids had those watches with both analogue and digital displays because they struggled telling the time. We've not moved on since then?
 
Cosimo said:
No really surprised as we have a nation of thickos who can’t do simple arithmetic without a calculator, are unable to spell, use simple grammar and can’t even speak properly. Parents don’t teach them and the teaching in schools isn’t up to standard so it is to be expected.
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I mean imagine people actually buying clothes rather than rearing sheep, spinning wool and knitting, imagine people buying furniture without felling trees and making their own, what is the world coming to?

Bring back rationing and polio, the good old days.
 
Is telling the time difficult? Seriously, I don't understand how it can possibly be hard... :confused:
 
Sudden said:
I face a far more tragic problem.

I have a backwards clock at home. Other than my watch, it's the only analogue clock in the house. Some of my family loved it when they visited so they got one as well. Now at home I have a backwards clock, when I visit some of my family, there's a backwards clock. This is the norm for me. When I see a normal clock, it takes me a second to realise it isn't backwards and correct myself to figure out what the time is!
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I had this problem, got used to it but it took years.
 
If anything, I find digital watches cheap and tacky. Analogue watches are too boring, but I like analogue watches with a digital display so you can set the alarm. I've never found myself looking at the digital display first, always the analogue.
 
dbmzk1 said:
Makes you wonder what they are teaching in schools nowadays to be honest. This is basic stuff that everyone should just know!
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They sit them in front of ipad these days running educational apps :(

I consider it my parental duty to get my kids outside and do 'normal' things. Unfortunately these days, it's actually not normal! :mad:
 
AJK said:
Is telling the time difficult? Seriously, I don't understand how it can possibly be hard... :confused:
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It's not the difficulty, I'd say it's because they haven't been exposed to it or taught how to read a clock (I was taught at Primary School), which most young folks aren't nowadays I guess.
 
I can't wear a watch, it annoys the hell out of me wearing one on my wrist

With phones about, I never see the need for them anymore.

Time is everywhere these days, on deskphones, on PC's, laptops, tablets, mobiles, dont see the need for a watch apart from a fashion piece
 
My kids (youngest 13) can all tell the time using an analogue clock but it is nothing to do with my obsession with watches. At school, when being taught how to work out adding and subtracting time (ie if it takes 45 minutes to do something, they started at 12:35, when did they finish?), they used analugue clocks due to it being easier.

Two of them now have analogue watches (one of them my Rolex and the other my Omega :eek:) whereas my daughter uses an analogue clock on her phone.
 
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