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Haha amazingly there’s a chance I interviewed you, or you interviewed with my company when we were first rolling this out, or another company was also using the
by catillac 5y ago
Haha amazingly there’s a chance I interviewed you, or you interviewed with my company when we were first rolling this out, or another company was also using the same question. I remember the idea was to make the analog like one of those analogs that didn’t move continuously but ticked at every sixty second interval. So it never needed to be in between minute ticks.
Lots of us didn’t fully understand the question when we were giving it initially and it caused a lot of problems. I’m guessing you had the minute hand drawn as if it moved continuously since you mention seconds.
Let me apologize for either myself or my company :)
- dcomp 5y agoFor the record. Most analog clocks have smooth motion for minute and hour (for the precision of the gearing). Its the second hand that ticks.
- marvin 5y agoI don't know much about clocks, but the Swiss railway clocks are by some considered a canonical example of an analog clock, and they behave the way GP describes. But all other analog clocks I've ever seen behave the way you describe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock
- eythian 5y agoInteresting, the one I have moves the minute hand about 5 times per minute or so, rather than being continuous.
- kseifried 5y agoAnd conversely there are clocks with smooth movement of the second hand, some
- kseifried 5y agoAnd conversely there are clocks with smooth movement of the second hand, something I prefer because then there's no annoying ticking noise.