Not sure if you’ve had the same experience but I had an American colleague ask me what I meant when I didn’t give the time in the 12hr format. The message was something like, “I’ve booked the meeting for 14:00”
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indigojasper@kbin.social 8 months ago
as an american i must say i HATE this as well. people ask me why i use military time and i say it's because there are 24 hours in the day so it makes much more sense to me. and that in other parts of the world they call it international time with the military having nothing to do with it.
makes me wanna scream. thank you for letting me go off.
governorkeagan@lemdro.id 8 months ago
Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Similar things happen to me. All of my devices are in Spanish in addition to 24hr, so anything automated is sent in Spanish to my non speaking colleagues
tempest@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I keep telling people metric time is where it’s at but they just look at me like I’m crazy
indigojasper@kbin.social 8 months ago
obviously we should all just switch to metric time lmao
PlexSheep@feddit.de 8 months ago
Time is not metric
EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Just to be devil’s advocate:
Time is not really not metric, either, to be absolutely fair. The only 60/60/24 thing is mostly just a continuation of the system used by the Babylonians. Even our definition of the second as a “pulse” (I’m using that word merely for brevity) of a Cesium-133 atom is merely an arbitrary choice. We could’ve chosen another atom if we wanted to, but I imagine that one made the most scientific (and practical) sense.
There are also plenty of instances in history where civilizations used a decimal system of timekeeping. Just a summary of the Wikipedia page on the matter below:
Alternatively, if you make the decimal second equal to 0.864… SI seconds, then that would allow you to have 100 seconds per minute, 100 minutes per hour, 10 hours per day, and still have clocks align with the solar day.
Hell, even our definition of the second is merely the number of “pulses” (word for used for brevity’s sake) of the Cesium-133 atom that corresponds to how long our second is. In other words, our definition of the second isn’t based on objective truth; we just found an objective way to define the system we already use. Lol.
Mind you, I’m merely playing devil’s advocate here. As much as I love the SI, and the metric system in general (both modern and previous versions), and would not be opposed to switching to decimal time if mandated, I’m okay with the system we have now. I JUST FUCKING WISH WE ALL USED 24H FORMAT GODDAMMIT THE AMBIGUITY OF 12H TIME PISSES ME OFF JUST FUCKING WHY GODDAMN IT nearby explosive barrel explodes from proximity to blood vessels
tl’dr: Our conception of time as sexagesimal, and even based on the Cs-133 atom, is not quite as objectively based as one might be led to think. Also, fuck 12h time.
PlexSheep@feddit.de 8 months ago
Good comment. Thanks!
Isn’t the second defined by light traveling a specific distance in vacuum?
To add to that, I wish we all just used UTC. Time zones are useless, we could all just adjust to the universal time in local schedules.
Also: english could be renamed to common and it would make sense.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 8 months ago
I remember hearing an anecdote that (I forget which band) got signed because they misunderstood the record producer when they requested a demo at 8 and showed up ready to play psychedelic rock at 8oclock in the fuckin morning
valek879@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Pshh I bet you use acoustic time.
PlexSheep@feddit.de 8 months ago
What?
prayer@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But it can be
quantenzitrone@feddit.de 8 months ago
changing the value of a second is not really feasible nowadays, so instead i would propose to just remove minutes and hours, and use seconds, hectoseconds and kiloseconds
simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilosecond