It looks like the beginning of the end for those round faces numbered one to 12 with moving hands that we’ve used to tell the time since the 15th century.
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Mechanical and spring-driven clocks are slowly but surely becoming an anachronism because kids can’t read them after being used to digital time on their phones and computers.
Schools in the UK have already removed analog clocks because students aged between 14 and 18 complained they couldn’t tell the time. Can you believe it?
The demise of the clock as we know it is more a move to the digital age and there’s people who aren’t happy about it.
So, will our analog clocks go the way of the sundial?
A decision to call time on a town clock in Renmark in South Australia and replace it with a digital one has angered locals who are collecting names on a petition to stop the council doing it.
The clock has been a focal point since 1987, but the council and the local Lions Club believe it’s time for a move to the digital age with a committee member saying “clocks don't need hands and whatnot like we needed in the olden days ..."
So, will our analog clocks go the way of the sundial?
Do we have to follow and convert everything to digital, including the post office clock after Stop Press spent nearly four years campaigning to get it ticking again after its hands were jammed on five past 11.
Would the Poms spend $58 million and four years doing repairs on the famous Big Ben’s clock mechanism if there was plans to convert it to digital?
Can’t read analog clocks. What next?
A LITTLE LOCAL KNOWLEDGE GOES A LONG WAY
IT'S surprising just how little Sydney people know about Orange and other country centres.
A group of visitors here were surprised at the amenities we had, and no doubt were relieved to find we had electricity, running water and sealed roads.
They hadn’t heard anything about the huge Cadia mine and wondered what other sort of industry kept Orange people occupied.
They commented favourably about everything they saw and plan to return.
But it poses the question: what does Orange do to promote itself in the metropolitan areas other than trying to push food and wine once or twice a year.
Very little, it seems.
ANGEL OF THE OUTBACK HONOURED AT AIRPORT
JUST off the beaten track at Yeoval, Virginia Wykes would be happy the new western Sydney airport will be named after her friend Nancy Bird-Walton.
The pair first met in Rylstone in 1982 when Virginia was learning to fly because she thought time could be saved on the two farms she owned with husband Lyle by using a plane, so she got her licence and bought the Cessna she trained in.
Nancy Bird-Walton AO, OBE, often phoned Virginia at the farm and occasionally visited.
The National Trust in 1997 named her a National Living Treasure, she had a Qantas jumbo jet named after her.
Known as the Angel of the Outback she used her plane as an air ambulance and was founder and patron of the Australian Women Pilots Association.
She died in January 2009.
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