Clocks…..Time Telling …..

The DJ on a U.S.Army base radio station said, "The news will be coming up in a half hour. For you civilians, that's 6 p.m. For my fellow grunts, that's 1800 hours. For Navy personnel, it's gonna be 6 bells. And for you Marines, it's when Micky Mouse's big hand is pointing straight up and his little hand is pointing straight down...."
 

I once had a bank teller that couldn't make change. That was a bit troubling.
I learned to make change in school, in kindergarten. We had a pretend store set up and used play money.

I think I was in 2nd grade when the class was taught how to tell time.
 
You want to really confuse the heck out of them? Your bill comes to $2.37, you have no ones, so you hand them a $5 bill and 37 cents in change, so that they'll give you 3 $1 bills back. They can't do it. They'll stand there with the five in one hand and the change in the other, with the deer-in-the-headlights look.
 

I agree with the comments that have been made, but I also realize we live in very different times. In the 60's, my mother played a big part in my education. She taught me how to read prior to entering elementary school, she helped me with my homework and she met with my teachers to make sure I was performing according to standards. However, my father was the sole earner in our house and she never had to work. I was her sole focus. My father didn't have time to help me with my education.

These days, there are so many mothers that have to work AND take care of their children. I can understand why kids are not getting good educations at home because their mothers are trying to earn a living just like their fathers.

It is sad that kids these days can't tell time from a clock, write in cursive or do math without their phones. But this is a societal issue, not all on the parents.
 
jujube said:
The DJ on a U.S.Army base radio station said, "The news will be coming up in a half hour. For you civilians, that's 6 p.m. For my fellow grunts, that's 1800 hours. For Navy personnel, it's gonna be 6 bells. And for you Marines, it's when Micky Mouse's big hand is pointing straight up and his little hand is pointing straight down...."
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I believe this is what in the US is called Military Time. In the UK we just simply call it the 24-hour clock. I was taught the 24-hour clock in early Middle School. I used both the 24-hour clock method & “standard time” (AM, PM) up until the age of about 16. There after I just used the 24-hour clock.

No one around me uses AM or PM, neither inside work nor outside. I remember when I first started using the internet in the late 1990’s, people I interacted with in the US thought I was in the military because of my use of the 24-hour clock.
 
jujube said:
You want to really confuse the heck out of them? Your bill comes to $2.37, you have no ones, so you hand them a $5 bill and 37 cents in change, so that they'll give you 3 $1 bills back. They can't do it. They'll stand there with the five in one hand and the change in the other, with the deer-in-the-headlights look.
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I do this type of thing. It confuses the hell out of some people.
 
jujube said:
The DJ on a U.S.Army base radio station said, "The news will be coming up in a half hour. For you civilians, that's 6 p.m. For my fellow grunts, that's 1800 hours. For Navy personnel, it's gonna be 6 bells. And for you Marines, it's when Micky Mouse's big hand is pointing straight up and his little hand is pointing straight down...."
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Well, I'm glad you straightened that out.
 
jujube said:
The DJ on a U.S.Army base radio station said, "The news will be coming up in a half hour. For you civilians, that's 6 p.m. For my fellow grunts, that's 1800 hours. For Navy personnel, it's gonna be 6 bells. And for you Marines, it's when Micky Mouse's big hand is pointing straight up and his little hand is pointing straight down...."
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Actually, for Navy personnel it would be 4 bells (the beginning of the second dog watch). You said this was on an Army base though, so allowances must be made. :ROFLMAO:
 
jujube said:
You want to really confuse the heck out of them? Your bill comes to $2.37, you have no ones, so you hand them a $5 bill and 37 cents in change, so that they'll give you 3 $1 bills back. They can't do it. They'll stand there with the five in one hand and the change in the other, with the deer-in-the-headlights look.
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I know that look and get it when I do that, too. Like a total is $9.02 and I give a $10 and two pennies. "Uh, your total is only nine-o-two and you gave me more than ten dollars!" :rolleyes:
Even worse than that is when I tried to use one of those bicentennial $2 bills from '76 a few years ago... the little weasel actually called his manager over because "this lady is using fake money to pay!" Oh Lordy. 🥵
 
Back in the 1850's, you needed to know how hitch up a horse to a wagon for your own survival. How many of us can do that? Something that was so basic is now outdated due to technology. I think what we consider basic knowledge is being outdated by technology. You don't need to tell time from a face clock, when a digital clock tells the exact time.
 
CallMeKate said:
I know that look and get it when I do that, too. Like a total is $9.02 and I give a $10 and two pennies. "Uh, your total is only nine-o-two and you gave me more than ten dollars!" :rolleyes:
Even worse than that is when I tried to use one of those bicentennial $2 bills from '76 a few years ago... the little weasel actually called his manager over because "this lady is using fake money to pay!" Oh Lordy. 🥵
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I had a couple of the Susan B. Anthony $1 coins I tried to use last year and I had to insist that YES they WERE required to take them.
 
Perhaps they should bring back "Mickey Mouse", watches,
when I was young, we all had one, it was great fun using
our arms to tell somebody the time, it was also easy to do
and we all learned how to tell the time fairly quickly.

Mike.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Back in the 1850's, you needed to know how hitch up a horse to a wagon for your own survival. How many of us can do that? Something that was so basic is now outdated due to technology. I think what we consider basic knowledge is being outdated by technology. You don't need to tell time from a face clock, when a digital clock tells the exact time.
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Exactly. I didn't learn how to write with a quill and bottle of ink and managed just fine. Teachers have to prepare children for the world they'll inhabit, a very different place from the world their grandparents grew up in.

YouTube is a great place to teach or learn skills not taught in school - analog clocks and cursive writing included.

For the record, my grandchildren's elementary school teaches students how to tell time using analog clocks. I've seen it in their workbooks.
 
I don't believe schools are not teaching how to read an analogue clock but phones,computers,tablets all have digital clock displays and even I won't wear a watch that doesn't have a digital display.
And I have it set in 24 hour mode.
Train and bus stations have digital clock displays.
They are everywhere.
Can't escape them.
It's the modern world.
 
My son could tell time to the quarter hour when he entered Kindergarten. And for a very good reason. He was both ADD and Hyper focused as a toddler and very young child. He would be playing with a certain toy for example and would not stop to eat, go outside, take a nap, etc. He could not break away on his own. When I would force him he tantrummed. So we used the clock. I also bought him a poster that had moveable hands and was used by teachers to teach time.I put it on the wall next to a large clock. I always prepared him by saying see where the big hand is now? When it moves to here we have to stop this and go to the grocery store, etc. He learned the passage of time as it relates to the movement of the hands. Quite frankly that's how we all learned it. Its all about how your brain processes the spacial relationship of the face and hands. Even now when you ask someone the time and they say 2:18 you picture the clock face. Am I right? You don't picture a digital display. Kids have to learn the clock face in order to learn how time passes.
 
Furryanimal said:
I don't believe schools are not teaching how to read an analogue clock but phones,computers,tablets all have digital clock displays and even I won't wear a watch that doesn't have a digital display.
And I have it set in 24 hour mode.
Train and bus stations have digital clock displays.
They are everywhere.
Can't escape them.
It's the modern world.
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Hit the nail on the head there, Furry!

I have 3 grandchildren, two of whom are still in school and yes, teaching how to read an analogue clock plus 24 hour clock/Roman numerals is on the UK school curriculum. Eldest one and middle grandchildren prefer digital while the youngest is happy using any but then she loves numbers and maths and has always been fascinated by them.
 
Pam said:
Hit the nail on the head there, Furry!

I have 3 grandchildren, two of whom are still in school and yes, teaching how to read an analogue clock plus 24 hour clock/Roman numerals is on the UK school curriculum. Eldest one and middle grandchildren prefer digital while the youngest is happy using any but then she loves numbers and maths and has always been fascinated by them.
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I just checked with my daughter - both her children (8 & 11) easily tell time using analog clocks.
 
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