One thing I learned from Dave Gorman’s PowerPoint adventure was that, at some point in the past, a marketing executive decided that clocks set to a “happy” time (i.e. the hands were in a semblance of a smile) were more likely to sell so now every time I see a clock display like this, I giggle.
It’s also why all of HTC’s phone adverts have 10:08 as a time display on the digital clocks :)
