I do not normally appreciate military stories, but some people are lucky to find a place where they can make up life skills they did not learn earlier.

And those are the people complaining about things being shut down longer. If you'd just listened, it would have been a LOT easier to open things back up earlier.

Love this one

Surprisingly common among a generation who grew up with digital watches

This is actually something I struggle with. I usually can tell the time on these clocks but it takes me a minute or two and it's embarrassing. I think the root of it for me is I've never been good with numbers, and then I always had a digital watch growing up and it was just so much easier to just use that.

You can always try to be open about not knowing and acting respectful to those who don't know (social stigma is the main cause of this problem) and explain how to read a clock in 5 seconds

This is random but when my friend sees cursive writing she says "I DoNt SpEaK cRoIsSaNt "

Another case of a processing problem with the brain. When patients are suspected of having dementia, they're asked to draw a clock on a piece of paper.....complete with drawing the numbers and the hands. True thought disorder patients can not complete this task correctly.

TBH, I'm a grown ass adult, like way old adult, and I can't tell time on an analog clock. I've never been able to, at least not very well and without thinking about it. It's probably a mild dyslexia as I have trouble with numbers a lot of the time. Analog clocks are just fine, except for the who reversing numbers occasionally, lol.

I can very much read a clock, I just can't read it super fast, like my mom. In my defense, though, the only non-digital clock we have is in Roman numerals, so...

My son has an engineering degree and can't read analogue.

One of the main characters on a popular reality TV show here in the UK called "The Only Way Is Essex" can't read an analog clock. However, that doesn't stop him from owning a collection of VERY expensive watches, which are purely decorative as he can't read them.

About 15 years ago, at the playground with my kids, a teenager asked me the time. He could not understand me when I said quarter to six. I had to tell him 5: 45 for him to understand...

I love this response.

I worked at a middle school for nearly 18 yrs. There were so many kids who couldn't tell time on an analog clock or read or write cursive that I lost count. Sad thing.

Such a minute task…

so many basic 'talents' got lost as we became more digital...

I can't remember when I got my first digital wrist watch, but I was pretty young and I just refused to learn the analog clock. It took me a long time to get there...

I bet analog clocks will be around for awhile, so it's good to learn how to read them. It's not like learning how to use a slide rule or how to take shorthand, those things died out completely pretty fast. Cursive writing...who knows? But, do people who don't know cursive just print their names on legal documents?

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My boyfriend could not read analog. I can read without numbers even if the clock is ticking backwards. I think It's a good agent skill.

I'm a boomer and a seemingly hard-wired analogue person despite working now in IT. When someone states the time, e.g., 12:38, I automatically convert it in my mind to what it looks like on a clock face. Honestly "shows" me much better how much time there is before 12 noon than the digits do.

Glad there are analog clocks back in schools.

Big talk for someone who can’t use end quotes properly.

I really struggled to learn to tell the time. I was nine before it started to sink in. Horrible memories of my mum screeching at me in frustration.

There is a whole thing on social media about asking kids what time it is if you say it's a quarter after 4 and they all say 4:25 because to them a quarter is 25 cents rather than a quarter being 1/4th of a thing.

There are, unfortunately, people who cannot read a clock with "hands" they are totally used to "digital" and cursive is no longer "taught" so we have many people who are functionally illiterate through no fault of their own, but because no one bothered to teach them.

I like having analog clocks. For me it's almost a subliminal way to glance and register the time internally (like a graphic image of time rather than interpreting numerical symbols as time).

damn... my kids learn that at 6 in school!

Discalculia

I found even in the 1990s people were losing their knowledge of how to use analog measuring devices. And even in the 1960s-1970s when that's almost all we had, it seemed like most people didn't really grasp how to read them without a lot of training, like how many significant digits you can read to, and how to estimate the last digit.