please empty your brain below
Excuse me but could you tell me the time?

pop artist | 08.04.03 - 10:01 p.m. | #

8:56 pm
... but I'm afraid Haloscan don't do seconds yet.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.04.03 - 10:06 p.m. | #

my watch takes barometric readings every 30 seconds and plots them on a splendid histogram, something i consult regularly. The altimeter is useful too - it emits a rousing bleep a second or so before the lift doors open on the seventh floor.

times new roman | 08.04.03 - 10:12 p.m. | #

analog ...mmmmmmm!

thebrick | Homepage | 09.04.03 - 2:11 a.m. | #

There was a feature on the first digital watches on BBC2's designing the decade (which I am enjoying, despite Maconie "I love the..." overtones). They too drew the same conclusion that although ultimately pretty cool, they have lost out to analog in the fashion stakes.

I have a vague theory that it's all to do with perception of length of time. The digital watch freezes you in one particular moment - it forsakes continuity for precision. The analogue clock face shows you where you are, where you were, and where you'll be in the future...

Hmmm - a bit deep for me.

Steve | Homepage | 09.04.03 - 10:32 a.m. | #

I like the best of both worlds.
Dual displays (very late 80s/early 90s)
Analogue for reading the time quickly and a digital display for digital things.
Anyone got £900 for the RADO ceramica multifunction?

Douglas | 09.04.03 - 10:57 a.m. | #

I too remember the digital/Swatch revolution. We went from digital one hundredth of a second accuracy to Swatches quite often with no figures at all. Just a vague pinkness to wave about. Like you too, I've stuck with digital. I need "second" accuracy for my job, although the console receives the Rugby time signal. Someone once made the interesting observation that with digital you get the impression of linear time going on for ever, whereas with analogue there's more of a cyclical, repeating notion.

Peter | Homepage | 09.04.03 - 1:00 p.m. | #

Functions ruled. In about 1978. I had the first 10-function watch in my class. It told the time, the date, had a stopwatch, an alarm.

Erm.

I bet the other six things were really good too, if only I could remember what they were.

Jon | Homepage | 09.04.03 - 9:50 p.m. | #











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