To me when someone tells me a time of day the first thing I visualize is the clock hands and not numbers. I suspect the present gen visualize numbers. They must have trouble with 60 minutes in the hour.. a quarter past six and such..
At 10-07-2011, you wrote: > Apparently for those who grew up in the analog clock era and >only had analog clocks around when they were little the mental >processing involved in reading and understanding the time from an analog >clock face is deeper and different from the mental processes involved in >dealing with the time in digits... which was a later learned skill and >seems to take more or at least different parts of the brain. -- Raj, VU2ZAP Bangalore, India. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
