Time Signals

[hafoc]

I'd guess there are still many places where the fire siren blows to mark noon and 6:00 PM. That's handy for those who don't wear watches, which is more of us than it used to be. It was even handier back in the old days where many people didn't wear watches because they didn't have one

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[thewayne]

I remember my first watch as a kid, a Timex mechanical. I still find it in boxes of curios, occasionally. And it still works, though the winder thingy (crown?) is almost worn smooth.

My fav watch was a sweet Seiko that I had in the '90s before cell phones in ones pocket were ubiquitous. It was marvelous: thin, analog, and it had an alarm, stopwatch, and countdown timer. Unfortunately it was also a POS: I'll never understand making a back out of stainless steel when the rest of the housing is out of base metal. Eventually my sweat ate through the housing and it died. The sad thing is that if I could find a similar watch made entirely of stainless, I'd consider giving Seiko more of my money.

I want an analog clock lock screen for my iPhone, or better yet, one that says: 'Almost 1:15, or 'A little after 2:00'. I object to ultra-precise time measurement for personal scheduling, knowing that it's 11:33 right now doesn't give me any more useful information than knowing 'it's almost 11:35'.

[hafoc]

I wear a Seiko which is all stainless. Of course it's also a ridiculously expensive self winding (or, properly, self-charging) quartz dive watch, with ruggedness and intense waterproofing I will never need. (If I ever did get that deep I'd be dead anyway, and the function of my wrist watch would not concern me much