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Next time you're in a rental aircraft, take a good look around the panel.
Most panels include a regular analog clock (not always set to the proper time though), but also various avionics are able to tell you the time or act as a stopwatch. For a GPS it's obvious but a reasonably modern digital transponder will also include a flight timer. And I remember having seen some sort of clock/timer function on an ADF too.
True, although as somebody who (a) often wants to know the time,and (b) flies multiple aeroplanes - I like having a timepiece that I'm always familiar with at a glance.
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