# Do you feel it's important for younger generations to be able to read an analog clock? If so why? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 19, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-its-important-for-younger-generations-to-be-able-to-read-an-analog-clock-if-so-why/1027820 "2026-02-19T17:30:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 98
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2026, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-its-important-for-younger-generations-to-be-able-to-read-an-analog-clock-if-so-why/1027820/98 "2026-02-20T00:23:30Z")
Lololol IIRC this was the topic of my very first (and a bit brash and assholish tbh) post on these boards! 🤣 > [@Why do circles have 360 degrees](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-circles-have-360-degrees/518/10): > > Stop, stop, everybody STOP THIS RIGHT NOW!!! Whew. Sorry. I let the WSH get away with a reply that, while a little fuzzy, was not really wrong, but the level of misinformation has since been growing exponentially and I have to jump in. Okay! First things first: When we talk about the Babylonian influence on the number of degrees in a circle, we are not talking about Sumerians (of whose achievements in geometry or astronomy we still know very little) but about their Semitic successors, the Ba… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-feel-its-important-for-younger-generations-to-be-able-to-read-an-analog-clock-if-so-why/1027820)._