Why isn’t this a popular thing?

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Fun personal fact about me: I didn’t learn to tell time until I was 9 years old. I was effectively blind until I was 8 when I first got glasses, so I had never actually seen a clock before then.

    Don’t get me wrong, I already had a concept of time, every time my parents or teachers would say the time numerically, but I simply never actually saw a clock in person until the year after I finally got glasses.

    One day when I was 9, my parents left me home alone to briefly go to the local store. Still dumbfounded by my new glasses and how clearly I could see stuff, I started looking at stuff on the walls.

    Then I saw the analog clock, just ticking away. I sat there for 5 minutes, just staring at it, counting every single tick of the second hand, and carefully paying attention to the slow movement of the minute hand.

    Then I thought to myself ‘Well shit, now I get it!’

    I more or less figured it out all on my own. But if it was somehow a confusing universal time as OP suggests/asks about, I wouldn’t have been able to figure it out on my own and would have still been really confused.

    • Chronographs@lemmy.zip
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      5 days ago

      I mean there’d still be clocks and they’d still read the same way, there just wouldn’t be any difference between what they say in different parts of the world.