On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:35:24 -0700 (PDT), polygonum_on_google
wrote:

On Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:27:51 UTC+1, T i m wrote:
. ;-)

I've often thought of getting a 24 hour analogue wall clock (we have a
'backwards' clock in the bathroom that's relatively easy to deal with)
but I think it would just look too busy and I'm not sure would fulfil
the 'point' of just glancing and reading the time ... or if not the
time, whereabouts in the day you were. ;-)

There are some quite impressive 24-hr watches but few nice clocks.

Again, do you think you can (would be able to) 'glance' at a 24hr
clock / watch and get the same instant feeling of the time as you
would a 12hr version, especially given most 24 hour things are digital
in the first place so you don't need to 'compute' the time?

In my opinion, of course.

Of course. I'd be interested to get a 24hr wall clock and just see how
'natural' it becomes.

One of the reasons I much prefer 24-hour time is when setting something up - boiler, oven, or many of the other devices we have with some form of time setting.

Ah yes, it makes perfect sense for those because as you say, you 'set
them up', not 'glance at' and get a feeling for the time (and what
percentage of the day you have left etc). Do you set a digital timer
from your analogue watch or the digital time on your phone or other
digital clock? ;-)

Suspect many of us have had the heating coming on 12 hours adrift to what we want.

Oh indeed ... or the day - date turning over on a watch at lunchtime.
;-)

(In time, we'll probably find a lot of these things will pick up time from the internet, one way or another. Via Bluetooth, wifi, NFC, UWB, ...)

Funnily the battery went flat in our radio controlled kitchen clock
the other day and when I put a new battery in it wound the hands round
super fast till they were all parked at 12.00 ... and then had a think
about it and then moved on at fast rate to the right time.

A much older radio clock we have here requires you to wind it onto
12.00 yourself and then it sorts itself from there.

That reminds me, I bought a little radio clock receiver kit (just the
receiver bit) that you can interface with an Arduino or similar that I
need to assemble at some time ... I thought it might be interested to
have something that shows when the signal was actually being
transmitted (and received of course). ;-)

Cheers, T i m