In a typical mechanical hand clock the minute and hour hands rotate around the same axis. [dragonator] decided to take the minute hand and move it out to the tip of the hour hand. It works because ...

When the minute hand on a clock moves from one number to the next, it has moved 5 minutes. There are 12 numbers around the clock face, and each interval is 5 minutes… 12 × 5 = 60 minutes in an ...

The space between each number on a clock contains five minutes. You can say a time to the nearest minute by checking exactly where the minute hand is. Let's look at some examples. We can see the ...