These digital clocks aren't digital at all

its funny you would have a video on this when im looking for it

that's right they aren't digital, where are their fingers!

Make no mistake, boys and girls, this stuff can give you brain damage.
—Sargeant Stadenko

I'm not sure that's totally accurate, but cut me some slack; it's late. I didn't even watch the video. Hope you aren't offended. I give you major props for that other video on "analog" clock faces. See my much longer comment on that one.

A good night to all.

The cut is after the joke because he did talk about it 😂

Time is full of this wibbly, wobbly…timey wimey stuff… be careful and don’t get any on ya. And I know what you’re talking about there.

I STILL wanna know about that clock which says “Victrola” on it.

This does not bother me for two reasons, one I have never seen groundhog Day I am saving it for a special day when I am too sad I need something new and two random variation means he may just own an alarm clock that happens to be better than yours random chance of manufacturing can happen

Why would you entice me with such an awesome looking Panasonic alarm clock only for me to find it online and realise it’s multiple hundreds of pounds.

In Groundhog Day, a) every day is different so maybe he doesn't wake up at the same time or b) maybe it starts right before it was about to flip

What is the power consumption of flip clocks compared to other clock display technologies (analog, LCD, LED, nixie tubes, etc.)? I know it's not much, but it adds up over decades of use and I don't want to be replacing D cell batteries for economic and environmental reasons if I can avoid it. The size of such batteries suggests higher power consumption than the AA batteries typical of analog and typical LCD display digital clocks.

I would consider a flip clock, they have the advantage of being very visible in a lit room, unlike a LCD without a backlight, while invisible in an unlit room, unlike any clock that produces light. As is an analog clock. My intuition is that the power consumption may be much greater, as more mass is being moved than with simple conveniental clock hands, and digital clocks may have few or no moving parts. I'd like to know if it costs me an extra few dollars of electricity to operate, or goes through batteries much faster, or requires much higher capacity batteries. That would be enough to get me to avoid a flip clock and choose something else pleasing to look at but with lower operating costs. A clock like this is something I may have continuously plugged in for decades. If operating costs are much higher, I may break even on a analog or digital clock that is significantly more expensive. Which may allow for a more beautiful clock, if I'm not attached to flip asthetics.

Perhaps I just need a solar flip clock with a mechanical battery like a watch spring. It would be better than a digital display for outdoor use, legible from a distance and producing no light pollition. A tiny and cheap small solar panel would provide energy for the clock, and the mechanical parts would probably fail before the power source. But I can forsee the cost of such a clock being greater than the savings from avoiding using grid power or electrochemical batteries.

I had a filmstrip clock! The filmstrips contained LED-like red segmented digits illuminated from behind. Each digit even had an "8" mask in front to sort of hide the film movement that occurred once each minute. When actual LEDs were still pricey, this was the low-budget imitation.

I think the oldest flip clock I've ever seen was called the "Plato clock" from around 1915, for whatever that's worth.

Which we call the second got me 😂

Im glad i watched your videos in the right order for the latent heat joke to still land

I just think they’re neat.

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Take a shot everytime he said the word "time".
Think I counted 20+ times.

As an IT guy, I always go analog when I can. Like the techy who wants a beefy physical lock on something, I know the downfalls of digital solutions (intimately). I'm sure that people who work in a mostly analog world feel the opposite, and embrace digital replacements in many situations.

The more I learn, the less I trust.

I hate them. They doesn't show the angle.

I remember my first digtal alarm clock mom got it from the S&H green stamp catalog it looked like a red led display but was like a movie film with the digits even had the tracking holes on the one side. I never seen anything like it. The clock lasted about five years before the motor died. 73

Few seconds off? You are actually very considerate….

I literally spend more than half an hour to time all my wrist watches (analog ones, never really cared about digital watches…)to tick precisely and accurately to the time zone I live in….
I need all my watches to tick exactly the same, particularly the seconds hands should all be in sync….

For me analog watches show me a better sense of the time than digital ones…gives me an idea of how many hours or minutes or seconds left, or have passed by….

It's a mechanically digital device built from analog components. Mechains of an analog clock repurposed to show you the 4 digits of the digital time. Cool to the such a minicpomputer being built just out of gears instead of transistors.

why does he gain a clock every 5mins or so

Not gonna lie. You had me going for a second about the refrigeration cycle 😂 and I’m a hobbyist clock and watch maker 😂

A third hand which we call the “second” 😂

I love how this video (watching nearly 4 year later) is peak-COVID-Alec-I've-been-trapped-in-this-house-in-the-woods-by-myself-for-too-many-months

Thanks axon

stop looking at me like that

This is actually crazy I would have never expected that and it’s blowing my mind. How the hell do people think of this kind of thing

This was a very interesting and informative video. I liked the way you talked about everything and made it simple to understand. Good job. Subscribed.

Time to make a clock that runs on latent heat and the refrigeration cycle.

I remember the departure board in one of the big London train stations. Even as a child I was in awe of the engineering and logistics involved (and the noise!)

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Groundhog day has a great advantage over reality. If by chance the alarm flipped to 6:00am at the exact same time that the inaccurate alarm fired at the beginning of the movie, then by the standard Harold Ramis repetitive physics model, the same coincidence will occur on each subsequent observation!

The Groundhog Day movie was actually a conspiracy by the Big Flip to sell more of their products.

Very nice Video, showing so many genius details in construction of something 'so simple'!
And, as a German, I'm confused everytime someone calls pointer on a clock 'hands'.

They show digits, so they're digital.

am i the only one who was excited for latent heat and the refrigeration cycle only to have my hopes dashed a mere moment later?

STOP SAYING TIME

Very timely

groundhog day

Hair.