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

[Jean-Louis Rault]

I like your rather poetic point of view :o)

Jean-Louis

Le 23/11/2019 à 14:27, Matt Osborn a écrit :
> 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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