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>I am not convinced that the brain can really understand time in the same way from a digital watch as from an analog watch
one big reason microsoft excel was such a revolutionary tool is because it allowed people to easily create graphs based on tables.
what were previously difficult to parse tables full of numbers could be easily turned into pie charts and bar graphs that were much easier to interpret and make sense of.

when we look at a text interpretation of time it definitely makes sense, but when you look at a clock face it's as if the minute hand is creating a pie chart of how far into the hour you are, and the hour hand is creating one of how far into the half of the day you are. you can instantaneously get a sense of where you are in the passage of time.