That applies only to analog clocks in 12-hour format.
A stopped digital clock is never right. But at least it's never wrong.
I'm kind of surprised this quote didn't appear sooner (since to me it seems widely applicable to many conversations around here).
I'm also kind of surprised you found a particular person to attribute it to. I'm glad that Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach considered this worth recording in print, but I think of it as a bit of widespread and anonymous folk wisdom from my ancestors' lives.
At the moment I'm at a loss to think of a modern analog for this concept, now that digital timekeeping has displaced our daily referent. That saddens me.
Thanks, though, for preserving this bit of wisdom for us today. Cheers
That applies only to analog clocks in 12-hour format.
A stopped digital clock is never right. But at least it's never wrong.
I'm kind of surprised this quote didn't appear sooner (since to me it seems widely applicable to many conversations around here).
I'm also kind of surprised you found a particular person to attribute it to. I'm glad that Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach considered this worth recording in print, but I think of it as a bit of widespread and anonymous folk wisdom from my ancestors' lives.
At the moment I'm at a loss to think of a modern analog for this concept, now that digital timekeeping has displaced our daily referent. That saddens me.
Thanks, though, for preserving this bit of wisdom for us today. Cheers