Barcelona 29/12 - 5/1

"Richard J." <rjnews@stayparis.net> wrote in message
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> In this digital age, I am amazed at the very high percentage of people
> who continue to tell the time by looking at the angles of two sticks,
> and then translating that into numbers, rather than having the display
> in numbers.

Oh, I agree. Equally, in this age of modern building techniques, I'm amazed
that we still have the Louvre, the Royal Albert Hall and the Tower of Pisa
when they could so easily be replaced by modern buildings.

;-)

Ian

Martin a écrit :

> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:50:39 +0100, "Ian F." <cisdfnde@m>
> wrote:
>
> >"Richard J." <rjnews@stayparis.net> wrote in message
> >news:SsW4f.131191$G8.14958@text.news.blueyonder.c o.uk...
> >
> >> In this digital age, I am amazed at the very high percentage of people
> >> who continue to tell the time by looking at the angles of two sticks,
> >> and then translating that into numbers, rather than having the display
> >> in numbers.
> >
> >Oh, I agree. Equally, in this age of modern building techniques, I'm amazed
> >that we still have the Louvre, the Royal Albert Hall and the Tower of Pisa
> >when they could so easily be replaced by modern buildings.
>
> You forgot to mention that it is quicker to tell the time using to
> sticks than read a string of digits. Hence analogue displays in glass
> cockpits.

It is, and I wonder why. Maybe the relation to the movement of the sun
uses a shortcut in our brains?

G;

Did you get the message that i have send to your email account? Peter

"Richard J." <rjnews@stayparis.net> wrote in message
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> Go Fig wrote:
>
>> I wonder how many with digital wrist watches use the 24hr format....
>
> If I have a digital watch, I prefer to have it set to 24-hour mode as it
> seems more natural to me,

I just do it as they never make the am/pm indicator obvious
enough and on the rare occasion that I need to set the alarm
I don't want to take the risk of setting it to 6:30pm instead
of 6:30am.

tim

In article <1129523493.235336.143480@z14g2000cwz. .com>,
"beeldbouwer" <beeldbouwer@> wrote:

> Yes, that's how some 450 million (european) people write down the
> date...;-) dd-mm-yyyy

Don't matter. America owns all. Bow down. :D