Jimmy Kimmel Challenged Local Youths to Read a Clock and It Didn't Go So Well

Time ^ | 5/29/2019 | Megan McCluskey

[simpson96]

With kids these days able to simply glance at their phones to see what time it is, Jimmy Kimmel was curious whether today’s young people even know how to read a good old-fashioned analog clock.

So for Tuesday’s edition of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! segment “Can You Do It?”, the late-night host sent his team out to the Los Angeles streets to ask young people walking by to perform one simple task: tell them what time it is.

“Times have changed a lot over the last 30 years. Even the way we tell time has changed,” Kimmel explained. “And it made me wonder if young people even know how to read an old-time clock anymore. You know, the round things with the hands. Anyway, we went out on the street and we asked people to tell us what time it is using an analog clock.”

The results, as you may have expected, were not great. While one participant completely confused the big hand and little hand, another refused to even give the task a go.

Watch the full clip below.

[gnickgnack2]

And the word is love.

[Roccus]

When digital watches first came out,...

...you had to press a button to illuminate the LEDs.

Needing two hands to do what previously only required one....now THAT'S what I call "progress."

[Roccus]

Oddly enough, all the vital data is still displayed in analog symbols.

When the dial faces are properly oriented (East Asianed?), all the hands will be at the same angle during "normal" operation. Thus, a simple glance is all that is needed to determine everything is OK.
If there is an "abnormal" reading, the pilot's eye is quickly drawn to that specific dial.

[ohioman]

“It’s Jimmy Kimmel.
The only Jimmy Kimmel video I’m interested in watching is him lighting himself on fire outside of the White House.”

Best post of the thread!!!

[jonascord]

Back When, one of the things that was done to make a production car SCCA ready was to replace all the instruments and idiot lights with analog dials, usually Borg-Warners, and mount them clocked so that all the needles were read straight up at nominal values. One glance is all it took to spot trouble.

I'm beginning to believe that youth and skill can be overcome with age and trickery.

[Roccus]

I'm beginning to believe that youth and skill can be overcome with age and trickery treachery.

};^)

[Tired of Taxes]

When you figure out that slide rule, maybe you can share what you learned here.

I’m your age, and I also inherited a slide rule from my dad. Wish I could’ve shown my kids how to use it, but I have no clue how it works.

[Oatka]

Pilots now have glass cockpits. The entire information package is now available as digital readouts.
Oddly enough, all the vital data is still displayed in analog symbols.
You don't suppose...

Bandits at 12 o'clock high! Uh where's that? BLAM!

[slouper]

Now THAT’S funny, never saw that SNL skit, maybe it’s on youtube.

[slouper]

I had a brilliant English writing composition teacher in high school (1978) and she was adamant about the students learning how to outline essays and paragraphs. I have used those writing tools my whole adult life. I wonder if that is even taught anymore.

[sparklite2]

I don’t know if any of my classmates benefited in the least from slogging through Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Moby Dick.

The high school kids of today deserve better. Things like most any of Sinclair Lewis’s work, F Scott Fitzgerald, and why not? Catch-22.