[time-nuts] Are minutes more important in astronomy than seconds and hours ?

[Matt Osborn]

Pretty nice, I've always wondered why clocks weren't designed this
way.  Hours last too long and estimating minutes from the hour hand is
minimally useful while seconds are too fast and mostly irrelevant for
human use.

Reading the time as so many minutes past whichever hour is very
natural and informative.

On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 09:29:09 +0100, Jean-Louis Rault <f6agr at orange.fr>
wrote:

>Hi all
>
>A friend of mine offered me a secondary electric clock that was in use 
>at Observatoire Royal de Belgique, in Brussels, at the end of the 19th 
>century.
>
>The manufacturer is Peyer Favarger & Co, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
>
>I'm wondering why the largest hand is used for minutes, and the smaller 
>hands for hours and seconds
>
>Any idea ?
>
>Jean-Louis

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