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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9312770" data-attributes="member: 7044704"><p>My parents' house has a digital clock from the 1970s that displays the time with numbered tiles that flip as the minutes and hours pass rather than on a display screen. So it will display a time even when the power fails, and will be correct twice a day if left to itself just like an analog clock will. Whether anyone still makes these old clunkers I couldn't say. The thing's actually louder than a wind-up spring-driven clock and has long since been banished to a basement workshop no one spends much time in, rather than being in my old room where it used to deprive me of sleep and break my concentration when reading throughout grade school.</p><p></p><p>Buzz-clack every single minute as long as it's plugged in. Gah. </p><p></p><p>It's surprisingly common to run into people who have never learned to read an analog clock, but that's not strictly a recent thing. My sister is in her 50s and still struggles with it. Much like cursive, I suspect if you don't get taught in your first few grades of school you'll never be comfortable with it - but I had a much better kindergarten than sib did, so she got the short end of things.</p><p></p><p>That happened to her a lot in school, not just on relatively harmless stuff like analog clocks. Combination of period sexism, lazy/inept teachers passing everyone without confirming the learning had taken, and what was probably undiagnosed ADHD. Really quite unfair, and it (along with some bullying she didn't tell anyone about for decades) contributed to her hating school until she got away to college where she excelled.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9312770, member: 7044704"] My parents' house has a digital clock from the 1970s that displays the time with numbered tiles that flip as the minutes and hours pass rather than on a display screen. So it will display a time even when the power fails, and will be correct twice a day if left to itself just like an analog clock will. Whether anyone still makes these old clunkers I couldn't say. The thing's actually louder than a wind-up spring-driven clock and has long since been banished to a basement workshop no one spends much time in, rather than being in my old room where it used to deprive me of sleep and break my concentration when reading throughout grade school. Buzz-clack every single minute as long as it's plugged in. Gah. It's surprisingly common to run into people who have never learned to read an analog clock, but that's not strictly a recent thing. My sister is in her 50s and still struggles with it. Much like cursive, I suspect if you don't get taught in your first few grades of school you'll never be comfortable with it - but I had a much better kindergarten than sib did, so she got the short end of things. That happened to her a lot in school, not just on relatively harmless stuff like analog clocks. Combination of period sexism, lazy/inept teachers passing everyone without confirming the learning had taken, and what was probably undiagnosed ADHD. Really quite unfair, and it (along with some bullying she didn't tell anyone about for decades) contributed to her hating school until she got away to college where she excelled. [/QUOTE]
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