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A fun project.

Separately: it's a step backwards. The advantage of the analogue clock is that you can get a very rapid idea of how much time you have left, or if something is a half hour away etc without having to parse a higher-resolution answer and then do math. In fact for the case at hand (doing an exam) it's exactly what you want.

None of which is criticism of the project of course!

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That works really well if you're doing a task that ends at on the hour.

But if your task runs from 10:47 - 13:32 then looking at an analogue clock and seeing how far through you are is at least as tricky as it is with a digital one.

Sure but that's an extremely uncommon case. If anything scheduled events, if not set to hour/half/quarter are set on 5 minute boundaries.

I can see where you're coming from. In my experience, people who can read an analog clock well can do it faster than someone reading a digital one.

Exactly. And all that computation isn't something you want to do in an exam; you just want to glance up and realise there's no need to panic. Of that you're half way through the time but not half way through the questions :-(. Either way a single-bit question.

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