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To check the time with your phone, you:
1. free at least one hand.
2. retrieve phone from wherever the hell you keep it.
3. activate phone backlight by flipping open or whatever
4. observe clock.

To check the time with a watch, you:
1. look at wrist
2. observe watch face.

I work with my hands alot.  A Lot.  rummaging around for a phone is a pain in the ass.  craning my neck and/or twisting my body looking for a stationary clock somewhere is a pain in the ass.  glancing at my wrist is painless and quick.  Worst case scenerio, I have to reach over with the off hand to light the face, which gives off a fraction of the glow of a cell phone.  Until they figure out how to implant chronographs in the retina, I'll stick with a watch.

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i have a clock on my cell phone and only really use it to keep track of what time to be at work and the likes, as well as using it as my alarm clock. i rarely ever look at it in my off work life. i mean if it's to the point that your setting up round the clock security shifts and need to be up at a certain time or need to make a rondevous or something sure i can see where it would be very helpful. just a natural disaster or something of that sort not so much...

when i was a kid we used to loose power at my parents house for hours and sometimes days on end on a pretty regular basis. light the keroseen lamp and or some candles if it's after dark, time of day didn't really matter...

i dunno maybe i should look into a watch may be handy, but like waldo i gave up wearing one years ago and personally i don't much care for wearing any extra adornments anymore(though at one point in history i had 13 piercings only 4 if which were in my ears as well i routinely wore spike studded dog collers, gauntletts, bracelets, and spiked boots). i still love the punk rock and hardcore music but it's hard to be grey when you sparkle like a chromed christmas tree...



K.

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Lemme see...all of you guys who insist you'll be safe on your farms..how you going to time your gaurd watch rotations without a watch?

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I keep breaking watches and do not wear one anymore.

Out hunting and fishing we do not use watches as we are to busy.

To many things to do if shtf.
Be to busy getting food and other things.

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For example if you were communicating using ham radios, etc, time will be critical so you can actually talk without continuously monitoring things

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digital or analog?

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A watch can help the Skilled woodsman with many tasks...



Especially navigation and travel estimation to better budget his time throughout the day.



Can also be used as a Compass, Comparing distance to time traveled for Moving objects you may be observing, especially good for knowing estimated time down to minutes/seconds daily tasks consume.



If you know it takes exactly X amount of time for "Insert repetitive daily task in here" Then you can better use/conserve your time overall and become more efficient.



Or if X amount of time is needed for a buddy to make a water run and he has exceeded that time by 3x, then you know something is wrong and quietly go looking for him.



But that's just my .02 on time management in the wild/SHTF conditions.

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I think I would take an alarm clock first .

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i have a clock on my cell phone and only really use it to keep track of what time to be at work and the likes

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I haven't worn one for several years.

And if the SHTF, I doubt I'll really need one.

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The problem I have with this thinking.... cause I think the same way about different things....



I always think that the thing I am going to want or need come SHTF....

... is whatever I think right now that I won't want or need.



For example, if I plan on using gasoline... I will only be able to get diesel,

if I plan for diesel, I will only be able to get propane.....

Just seems like that is how it always works out for me.