Bridge clocks in TUC

[Christopher]

Screen-tap, or vocal command away, then.

Except, as I said, there have been various scenes where characters stated the time and were clearly shown to do nothing to look it up. It's not something that can be rationalized in-universe, it's just a directorial oversight (or more likely a deliberate break from reality to prevent irrelevant details from getting in the way of the dialogue and action).

 

[NCC-73515]

Nope. It's been proven that in the absence of external cues, humans have no ability to estimate the passage of time. You can believe hours have passed when it's only been minutes, or vice-versa.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00115/full

 

[Tosk]

In regards to characters not looking at the time, the solution is clear. They check the clock when they are in the toilet.

Easy answer. Meyer is crazy. He thinks everything is either a Sherlock Holmes or a H. G. Wells novel.

Or a Scooby-Doo episode.

Which one of those three features a digital clock?

 

[Qonundrum]

I always assumed it was to help the audience on the timing of the whodunit aspects of the plot.

Except one scene shows 01:38:00 at the wrong time. It's during the time when the Bird of Prey fires the two torpedoes on Gorkon's ship... I loved the clocks when watching in the theater, but any eagle eye* would have spotted it...

* or in my case, a cuckoo... ​

 

[JonnyQuest037]

A funny story from my community theatre days: I was once in a production of 12 Angry Men, which takes place entirely in a jury room. At one point one of the jurors looks up at the clock on the wall and notes the time. When one of my castmates was showing a friend around the stage set, his friend asked, "How did you work it so that the clock was set at just the time you said it was in the script?"

My castmate stared at his friend for a second and told her the stage manager just reset the clock to the same time before every performance and then whenever that scene rolled around, the actor said whatever time the clock actually read.

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

It's a fantastic play.