How are you with reading clocks?

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In the French Revolution, the French Republican Calendar did exactly this. The metric system started in France at this time. But they also tried to decimalise time.

The calendar was different, for example it had new names and time spans for months. But a day consisted of ten hours, an hour of 100 minutes, and a minute of 100 seconds.

This metric time didn't catch on like the rest of the metric system did.

I'm just as good as anyone else right now at reading old-fashioned clocks, but a few years ago I wasn't and preferred the digital kind. I wasn't good at it before because I had trouble telling if the clocks were accurate and how off they were if they were off.

was that meant to say LCD display? KoR thinks would be bad if they did put LSD in them.


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Am unable to understand clocks,time or numbers,but have got MLD [multiple learning disability] so reckon it's part of that.
am glad in a way am not able to understand time or clocks because it would be one more thing to add to the list to have meltdowns over for having to have everything done at a certain time,currently am have to relie on staff to know when the time is to do things as well as knowing day means light and night means dark.

This is quite similar to my experience (although I always locate and figure out the big hand before the little hand).

At one point, I was the only child in my class at school who could read the time from an analogue clock face, but I do not seem to be any faster now than I was then.

I'm very good with reading clocks.

Oh no! That IS horrible! That would drive me INSANE! I only have one clock that ticks audibly. Two others are LCD's and the fourth just has a little second hand so it doesn't make much noise.


btw lmao at LSD clocks

Freudian slip.

only if there is no numbers on the face just tick marks, and then i have a one in two guess of the time. (could be upside down.

I think I was about 11 or 12, maybe older, before I could make any sense of an analog watch/clock. Hasn't been a problem for a long time, have one on my wrist now...

Digital or analog?

ruveyn

I hate clock faces like that. I have to use my fingers to count if it's a small clock and the ticks are close together.

If I look at an analog clock, I know what time it is and how much time I've got before whatever event at a certain time that I'm waiting for. BUT if you ask me what time it is, I may be unable to get the words. Usually I can do it fine, instantly, 'cause I've worked at it. It took me many years as a child, though.

If you ask me what time it is and I'm looking at a digital clock, I'll read it right out, but I have to take an extra few seconds to make the connection between that number and how soon something is going to happen.

I prefer an analog, I am less likely to be late, even if I am more likely to be embarrassed by seeming to be unable to read my own watch.

I love mechanical clocks and watches. I have some pretty ones. I wish to create a collection with an example of every type of clock escapement, just the mainsprings or weights, drive trains, escapements and pendulums without the rest of the clock, so I could hang them all on one wall and sit and watch them.

I'm fine with clocks now.
I couldn't read analogue clocks until I was 9; partly because I couldn't tell my left from my right, and a lot of clocks that I saw didn't have numbers on them, just lines where the numbers would be.

It took me longer than normal to be able to read a clock. I was nervous when I was little that someone would ask me "what time is it?" I was afraid of looking dumb of course.

I'm fine with clocks now, but I was late learning to tell the time as a child. My mother says that I did a weird thing where I seemed to be reading the clock backwards: e.g., I would guess twenty minutes past five as being twenty minutes to seven.

I get a bit confused with the points of the compass as well.

I learned to do it late and I still take a bit too long to read them sometimes.

I also prefer digital ones but only if they're on 12-hour mode.