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[โ€“] Faresh@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It goes beyond just showing what part of day you are in. Everything is reduced to angles. You don't have to do any math with numbers, just look how much the pointer has to move to see how much time is left until an event you are interested in, and you get to visually compare that angle with the entire half of a day to get an even better perception of the passage of time.

This is a lot of compromises to cater to a preferred short hand for a niche demand IMO