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I stopped wearing a watch several years ago, and I never really adopted carrying a cell phone with me everywhere, so I started relying on clocks being where eve
by cheschire 8y ago
I stopped wearing a watch several years ago, and I never really adopted carrying a cell phone with me everywhere, so I started relying on clocks being where ever I would end up needing them. When there wasn't a clock hanging, I would typically find a person to ask, or a computer screen to glance at.
It's amazing how many places would benefit from hanging a simple clock. Airports, for example...
- Angostura 8y agoIts amazing how useful a watch is.
- kaybe 8y agoI am really confused about the lack of clocks in airports. Train stations usually have plenty, but airports usually close to none. Why?!
- 24gttghh 8y agoTheory: There are arrival/departure time screens everywhere and those have the current time on them?
- kaybe 8y agoYou'd think, but the really big old ones don't actually have the current time, and the screens in the departure area are usually small and less frequent than I'd like.
- 24gttghh 8y agoSecond theory: Planes are late constantly and the airport/airlines don't want to keep reminding people how late the flight is; apart from the obvious intercom announcements, that is.
- superflyguy 8y agoDon't you mean "it's amazing how many times I'd be better off wearing a watch/carry a cell phone"?
- ken 8y agoI think this is a good argument against DST. I realized a few years ago that I don't need to wear a watch because I'm never in any place that doesn't have a clock. Unfortunately, a lot of clock don't get changed promptly for DST. Here in Seattle, it seems the transit clocks are always changed a month or two (!) after each DST change. Some public clocks never get changed. There's a significant fraction of the year where I simply can't trust any clock I see.