[Bugs] #1959 Clock UNSP: Clock Activity should have a "knob" to move the hands.

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#1959: Clock Activity should have a "knob" to move the hands.
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    Reporter:  cjl                        |          Owner:  garycmartin                
        Type:  enhancement                |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  Clock                      |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:                             
Distribution:  Unspecified                |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed                
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Comment(by erikos):

 Excellent work Manuel, this feature gets a really good pedagogical one!

 As you have stated in one comment the 'written and spoken' clock has
 difficulties when it comes to AM vs PM.

 1:30 AM - Es la una y media de la mañana.
 1:45 AM - Son las dos menos cuarto de la mañana.
 1:45 PM - Son las dos menos cuarto de la tarde.

 (http://www.spanishspanish.com/time/clock_web.html)

 Interface wise one could have a button that let's you switch between AM/PM
 in the grabbed clock.

 Grabbing the clock hands is nice as an effect, though I must say that I
 had difficulties sometimes getting the result that I want. For example
 1:45 was impossible to get to (at least in Spanish), it always left at
 1:44 or 1:46. Maybe adding a number box like in the
 [http://www.spanishspanish.com/time/clock_web.html example] shown is a
 good option as well. Is not as sexy but might be easier precise interface
 wise.

 There are different ways of telling the numbers, a simple one and a more
 complex one. Let's look at French (6:50): "Il est sept heures moins dix"
 or "Il est six heures cinquante", (see
 [http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/tellingtime.htm one guide). The
 AM/PM information might be implied (surroundings) or you can add the "du
 matin/de l'après-midi/du soir" to clarify.

 And the more precise one using the 24hours model: "Il est dix-neuf heures
 moins dix" or "Il est dix-huit heures cinquante". (see
 [http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/tellingtime_2.htm this guide]).

 We have to see what makes sense to put in there.

 One more point I want to raise is, that it is terrific that the grab
 feature works as well with speak. The sound with speak is not great
 though, hard to understand and get the pronunciation right. A killer
 feature would be to have the clock spoken by a native and maybe with
 enough compression this would not be as bad to add size wise. A vérifier.

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