@ocean I think more efficient for that would be clocks where the numbers are moved clockwise one position, so where 1 usually is, is 12 and where 2 usually is is 1. with this clock you'd immediately notice something is wrong, with a slightly wrong clock you need to pay attention to it and then you'll be even madder
@MBEverding @ocean When I worked in the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Labs in the 1980s, the Unix room (a common room with terminals and comfy chairs and the coffee machine) featured a number of odd things. One of them was a clock on which everything, numbers and hands, ran counter-clockwise.
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i'm partial to this clock from the Florence cathedral. it's the Paolo Uccello clock at the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (a.k.a. the Duomo) in Florence
The M&Co Wall Clock Askew is an analog wall clock designed by Tibor and Maira Kalman that challenges conventional ideas of time. The numbers on the clock face are arranged in a random order, rather than in the traditional sequence.
Does anyone read the numbers, or their names for this matter, on an analog clock face anyway? You may wipe the numbers off completely and yet I'll be able to tell the time.
I hate you and I hate this clock. My eyes are cursed and my tears will be forever tainted. I am less useful for spell components now. I don't like this fact.
Replied in a sub, but there is a mechanical watch that essentially works this way. The hour hand skips to the appropriate hour. Note that it makes the same distance jumpโ5 clock hours each hour. Still, an amazing bit of ingenuity in watchmaking.
Looking at that clock is like inverting the vertical axis of your mouse for one day. Retraining causes massive neural disassociation, leaving you unable to use a mouse after switching back to what you believed to have mastered.
@Amorpheus I have set the keyboard layout on my phone so that it runs on the QWERTY keyboard layout when using English language and on the Dvorak keyboard layout when typing in German. It took two weeks to be fluent on both layouts and now my brain doesn't even notice the difference anymore.
I sat here for far too long going "that's not in lexographical order. That would be 1, 11, 12, 2,3,4,5..." Until I realised it's by the English spelling of the number.
@catsalad, and there's a fun thing. The displacement of the numbers has some logic:
1 and 2, 5 and 10 - multiple by two.
11 is opposite to 6 and is followed by 5, 12 is opposite to 9 and is preceded by 3; 11=6+5 and 12-3=9; the operation depends on the second operand position (if it goes before or after on the display).
I just realized if you have twelve different clocks, one with 11 at each position (or a clock with just 11 at each position) then it is always time for elevensies.
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it's the Paolo Uccello clock at the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (a.k.a. the Duomo) in Florence
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M&Co โAskewโ Wall Clock (Tibor & Maira Kalman)
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5 - cinque
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12 - dodici
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8 - otto
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7 - sette
3 - tre
11 - undici
1 - uno
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in reply to Cat ๐๐ฅ (D.Burch) โ • • •Replied in a sub, but there is a mechanical watch that essentially works this way. The hour hand skips to the appropriate hour. Note that it makes the same distance jumpโ5 clock hours each hour. Still, an amazing bit of ingenuity in watchmaking.
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Crazy Hours - Franck Muller
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Thank you for being so considerate.
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*curls into a ball*
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in reply to Cat ๐๐ฅ (D.Burch) โ • • •@catsalad, and there's a fun thing. The displacement of the numbers has some logic:
1 and 2, 5 and 10 - multiple by two.
11 is opposite to 6 and is followed by 5, 12 is opposite to 9 and is preceded by 3; 11=6+5 and 12-3=9; the operation depends on the second operand position (if it goes before or after on the display).
The other pairs differ by one.
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Fourmorrow ...
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