Analog clocks displayed on the wall or on your desktop contribute to a classic, intellectual atmosphere that digital clocks simply can’t duplicate. While you might check the time on your phone or ...

Roman numerals are, by modern standards, a bit unusual. By virtue of using designations for both 5 and 10, and not scaling well to higher numbers, they’ve fallen out of favor outside of some specific ...

Thanks for your informative piece on the Roman numerals on the Tomb of the Unknowns. Now can you explain to me why the 4 on my watch is denominated by IIII instead of IV, a fact I had not noticed ...

“I remember when a clock had a round front to it, which we called the face, and it had numbers around the edge of the face, and radiating out from the center of the face they had these two or ...

This analog clock has a twist: the only number appearing on the clock face is nine, but it's calibrated correctly once you do the math. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...