[time-nuts] Am I the only Time Nut who doesn't wear a watch?

Raj vu2zap at gmail.com
Sun Jul 10 11:33:06 UTC 2011


To me when someone tells me a time of day the first thing I visualize is
the clock hands and not numbers. I suspect the present gen visualize 
numbers. They must have trouble with 60 minutes in the hour.. a quarter
past six and such..

At 10-07-2011, you wrote:

>        Apparently for those who grew up in the analog clock era and
>only had analog clocks around when they were little the mental
>processing involved in reading and understanding the time from an analog
>clock face is deeper and different from the mental processes involved in
>dealing with the time in digits... which was a later learned skill and
>seems to take more or at least different parts of the brain.

-- 
Raj, VU2ZAP
Bangalore, India. 





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