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I thought this was an amusing portion of an article on our company's intranet. As you know everyone is hurting right now, but my company has figured out great ways to save money.

About half of the clocks in Corporate Center will be removed during the next several days before Daylights Saving Time takes effect to increase operational efficiencies. Because the clocks are battery powered, there’s quite a bit of labor involved in updating them each year for time changes and to replace batteries. Clocks will be left in the busiest core areas, but will be removed in smaller conference rooms, areas where there are multiple clocks, etc.

Just hope they don't save those clocks to give away as a 10 year gift package.

Following Chrysler's lead....

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE51Q54320090227

"In the meantime, Chrysler has also removed hundreds of clocks from the walls of its headquarters, telling workers to check the time on their watches, phones or computers.

By taking down the clocks last year, maintenance staff no longer have to reset them twice a year, when the time changes to daylight saving time and back.

William Wolf, Chrysler's facility operations director, said in a posting on the Chrysler blog that would save $10,000."

I stopped using wrist watches years ago, no need, every freaking electric appliance or gadget has one.

Ditto. In my immediate vicinity I can see 5 clocks, none of which are on the wall or require human labor to set.

I still wear a watch. Sure, clocks are everywhere. Not counting my watch, there are 4 clocks that I can see from where I'm sitting right now.

But I enjoy having an analog watch on my wrist. I just sort of prefer to observe and note the progression of time with analog hands, rather than a little digital display.

I also have a self-winding watch that I like to wear. Something about the symbiotic relationship of the watch ticking away, keeping time from energy generated by my movements makes me happy. I also have a deep appreciation of the engineering and mechanics that went into making a device that keeps time without any electronics.

I also have a strong desire to have a clock that is as *precisely* accurate as possible. A bizarre habit of my father that I inherited. With a watch, I can set it to be perfectly in sync with the atomic clock in Boulder, Co via shortwave radio. Sure, PC's can sync with time servers, and cell-phones get the time from the provider. But I like to do it myself, to know that it's accurate. OCD much?

I'm sentimental. And weird.

I don't know if I like all of this clockblocking.

Amen. I've always been able to read an analog readout faster than a digital.

Oddly, my brother just sent me this link today. 10 Most difficult to read Tokyoflash watches.

I'm also surprised that it seems no one under 18 can read an analog clock face.

Bren R.

Analog clocks are neither precise nor accurate.

With a max of 60 marks around their face, the most precision you can directly read is two decimal places. A digital watch with a seconds counter shows four places of precision. That's two orders of magnitude better.

As for accuracy, even the best mechanical clocks will lose or gain a couple seconds within a month. But all it takes is a cheap, quartz based digital to maintain that level of accuracy over the course of a year. Again, an order of magnitude better.

I wonder if 100 years from now people will still use the terms clockwise or anticlockwise or know where they cam from.