I remember enough about elementary school to know that we were taught to read clocks no later than 1st grade, and we may have started in kindergarten. My family moved to a different state when I was in the final month or so of 1st grade and all my timekeeping memories are from my old school.
I had one of these growing up, and I could tell time before we were formally taught it in school anyway. I’ll give some credit to Back to the Future for that too.
If you don’t want to watch the video, this clock advances in five minute increments when you press the left foot, or you can drag the minute hand around with your finger or turn the spindle. To see the digital time you can press the right foot to open his eyes. It’s a fully mechanical device so it has some decent action. Dragging the minute hand around with your finger really helps you understand the connection (literally and figuratively) with the hour hand. It also inadvertently teaches you a little about gearing if you try to go whole hog on it. There’s no finger hole on the hour hand, because if you try to turn it there’s too much resistance due to the gear ratio.
Regarding spreadsheets, while the computerized version is a relatively recent invention, they’re just a digital form of accounting ledgers and workbooks that have been around for centuries. I seriously doubt AI is going to make them go away because the spreadsheet is where you log the information first, and then do math on it second. AI might be able to automate the calculation process, but there still needs to be a chain of custody for all those numbers to allow auditing.