Telling time with a clock .

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Did you have difficulty telling time off of a clock as a child? I did,it tookme until I was 8 or so to reall,instantly,tell time from a clock.

I still have to stare at a clock forever in order to read it. People must think I am really stupid sometimes.

i think I learned to read a clock at 5 with little difficulty.

I wonder if those of us who learned to tell time from clocks with hands, as opposed to digital, have a different sense of time, since we can visualize time by associating it with the hands of a clock. Whereas digital time is just numbers, and not so much of a visual representation.

My husband can't tell time by a clockface. He'll be off by at least 2 hours. I was able to tell time by clockwhen I was 8, but i remember that it took me a while until it finally just clicked.

I can read hands on a clock fine. I have to visulaze a clock face though when I see a digital clock. And if I hear the time, I prefer "quarter to five", as opposed to "4:45".

I learned it at about the time they were teaching it in school. It took me a while to actualy tell time, I had to count out the minutes for a few years after that. I actualy do it the same way now but it's fast. My thought process goes like "Big hand on 9. little hand 8, 8 times 5 is 40, 9:40".

As a kid I didn't have MUCH difficulty, but now I have to stare for a good 10 seconds to read a regular clock. My watch has hands but also a digital read at the bottom.

Well, this is the one other area I felt behind in. I learned around 5 or 6, but a bit behind the others. It was just poorly explained to me. In retrospect, I should have tried to find examples, and figure it out myself.

That was before they had digital watches. In fact, it was before they had "digital" clocks! Does anyone else remember those lousy flip page type clocks they had in the late sixties and early seventies?

Steve

I've never had a problem with this. I know when I was four, I was doing it just fine. I even drew a perfect clock from memory!

yep...

we learned to do this in 2nd grade at my school... i sucked so bad at it... that i had my parents by me a digital wrist watch so that when the teacher in school would randomly pick on people to tell her the time... i would look down at my own watch and try to read from that.

didn't take long for the teacher/parents to figure it out cause.... what are the odds that my watch matches the time on the clock in my classroom?

lol it was a valiant effort on my behalf

Man! I hated it when swatch watches were en vogue..i got one for a birthday...it was so dumb..no numbers and the hands were practically invisible...it was neat to look at though.

Yeah..I have had some difficulty in that regard..had a hard time when I would ask someone what time it was and they would just show me their watch
On the other hand when i was in grade shcool, I was sorta fixated on the clock and would just stare and stare at it.

I didn't like analog clocks in early grade school when we were learning how to use them and instead relied on LED until I got to high school, where they had analog clocks that I wanted to learn how to read again. I've memorized 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock positions for the hour and minute hands. For other hours and minutes, I just count each dot around the circle. It's a little slow, but still works.

I got a Swatch for my birthday about a year ago and am currently wearing it. It's not bad.

I prefer digital clocks. Daylight Savings Time is evil!

i could just never read mine (which was from the late 80's)