为什么十点十分是钟表的默认设置时间.docVIP

为什么十点十分是钟表的默认设置时间？ 首先，我们从迷信的角度考虑，很多很多的人们认为广告上的钟表和商店里展示的钟表被这样设置是为了纪念亚伯拉罕-林肯，约翰-F-肯尼迪，以及马丁-路德-金。因为10点10分是他们被枪射中或死亡的时间。实际上，林肯是在晚间10点15分被枪击中，而死于次日清晨7点22分；约翰-F-肯尼迪在美国中部时间中午12点30分被枪击，下午1点被宣布死亡；而马丁-路德-金则是在晚上6点1分被射中并与晚7点5分被宣告死亡。另一个理论认为10点10分是广岛或长崎被扔下原子弹的时间，这种设置是为了纪念遇难者。而实际上，原子弹胖子是在当地时间中午11点2分被先扔下，原子弹小男孩在随后第二天的当地时间8点15分被扔下。这种设置的真正原因是：美学。10点10分这个位置使钟表展示获得以下受益：1? ? 指针不重叠，所以时针和分针可以被完整清晰的看到，指针的风格或可被赞赏。2? ? 指针的这种安排是对称的，通常对称会比不对称更令人视觉愉悦，从而使钟表产品对顾客更有吸引力。3? ? 制造商的商标通常是在表盘正面中央12点以下的位置，这样的指针设置不仅使商标完全可见，而且完美的衬托了商标。4? ? 表盘上的附加元素，如日期窗和小表盘，通常位于3点，6点，或9点附近，10点10分的设置不会使这些附加元素被掩盖。天美时(Timex)的家伙们现在把他们的产品指针精确的设置在10点9分36秒上，而在从前他们是设置在8点20分的，这使得钟表看起来像是愁眉苦脸的。为了使产品看起来更快乐些，他们把指针设置转变成笑脸。目前，偶尔仍然可能看到某些钟表指针位于8点20的设置，那是因为制造商的商标在表盘底部6点之上的位置。Why is 10:10 the Default Setting for Clocks and Watches? Reader Humaira writes: “I have always wondered why clocks, watches, and timepieces always say (roughly) 10:10 before you set the correct time. If you go into a store selling any kind of time-telling device, that is the default factory setting. Why is that?!!” First things first, let’s get the myths out of the way. There are plenty of people out there who think that clocks in advertisements and in-store displays are set this way memorialize Abraham Lincoln/John F. Kennedy/Martin Luther King Jr. because that was the time at which they were shot or died. In reality, Lincoln was shot at 10:15 p.m., and died the next morning at 7:22 a.m., JFK was shot at 12:30 p.m. CST and was pronounced dead 1 p.m. and MLK was shot 6:01 p.m. and pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. Another theory has it that 10:10 was the time that an atomic bomb was dropped on either Nagasaki or Hiroshima, and the setting is in memory of the casualties. The Fat Man bomb was actually dropped on the former at 11:02 a.m. local time and the Little Boy on the latter at 8:15 a.m. local time. The real reason for the setting? Aesthetics. The 10:10 position gives the clock or watch a number of benefits:? The hands not overlapping, so they’re fully an