> you must do actual calculations. I disagree, you build intuition around numbers just as you do anything else, and there's so few of them when dealing with ti

> you must do actual calculations. I disagree, you build intuition around numbers just as you do anything else, and there's so few of them when dealing with time, you feel it, your mechanical intuition has been built the same way. Like, if you read "19 minutes" you don't really need to calculate to feel "about a fourth of an hour" but if you needed to know, you don't have to squint harder. I agree, bar-shaped clocks would be silly, I was just thinking about gauges in general, where they make sense, and dial clocks are a special kind I think, because they wrap around all the time, exactly like your temperature or fuel gauge do not (or the "windows file copy progress bar"). A bar for an engine temperature, or fuel, or.. A time-constrained meeting! that'd make a lot of sense if "quickly determine if the engine is overheating without looking away for too long" is the priority (or if you need to decide if you have to run to the bathroom now or can wait for the meeting to end)