How to Tell Time on an Analog Clock Basic Life Skills

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Lifehacker reader Albert Peters says it took me until my early 20s to learn how to read an analog clock and it's still very difficult Albert that's okay we're gonna teach you right now before the big hand hits the three and promise by the end of this you will get that reference first let's get to know the clock face we have the numbers one to twelve in circle with four little lines between each of them then longhand shorthand and sometimes long skinny hand to represent seconds first hours there are 24 hours in day but the clock doesn't tell you whether it's a.m. or p.m. you're going to have to look where the Sun is the small hand is the hour hand and the current hour is the number that the small hand last went past it could be very close to 11 but it is not 11 o'clock until the little hand crosses the marker for 11 so if you glance at the clock you can immediately know within an hour what time it is just from the hour hand now the long hand is four minutes there are 60 minutes in an hour 12 times 5 is 60 so whichever number the long hand is pointing to you could multiply by 5 to get the exact minute so if the big hand is right by the floor and you know 4 times 5 is 20 so it's whatever hour and 20 minutes don't worry nobody does this instead of numbers just know you're 4 anchor points the 12 the 3 the 6 and the 9 and those are 15 minute increments 0 or clock 15 30 and 45 so here's your hack just estimate about how far between those benchmarks you are is it somewhere between the 6 and 9 that means it's between 30 and 45 call it 3 42 if you're looking at an analog clock that's usually all you need is rough estimate if you need to know the precise minute pull out your phone no one's gonna judge you if you need more super basic life skills subscribe to life hacker we got more of these coming