I think they see it as some kind of metric time, and therefore something to be avoided at all costs.
Comment on America
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
are Americans really confused with 15:30?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
missandry351@lemmings.world 2 hours ago
They think it’s military time. I don’t know why because it doesn’t even read the same. Military would be something like thousand five hundred and thirty hours, we (people with 24h clocks) read it like fifteen thirty or three thirty in the afternoon, or even three thirty and omit the morning/afternoon part because it’s assumed from context.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
which is such a stupid way to tell time.
why tf do they concatenate hours and minutes!!! they aren’t even the same units!!!
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I grew up with a Betamax tape player under the family TV. It had a 24 hour clock and it was the timepiece in the house that was in the right spot to tell us all that it was bedtime. As a result I have an intuitive feel for the 24 hour clock. But if you haven’t used it regularly, which most ordinary Americans don’t, then yeah you just have to stop and do the arithmetic before you can connect 21:00 to your sense of time.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
You know what fucks me up is that 21 has a “nine-ness” quality to it now that sometimes makes me mess up real math.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
Nah, all you need is a little time to get used to it. It’s my default setting on most of my devices.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
I switched after being in a job where “meeting at 6” or “I’ll get in at 9” was 50/50 am or pm and I got sick of guessing and sometimes being 12 hours off.
Rolder@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
I’m regularly looking at log timestamps and I still need a very brief half second to think about the time lol
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Shouldn’t the system be storing timestamps in UTC anyway, and then displaying them in whatever localization settings you have?
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
I meant more for my personalized reading through logs. Some of our systems do log in UTC without correction, and they’re sometimes annoying.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yes, it angers and confuses them.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Written as 1530, mostly only Americans who have been in the military and their friends will know what you mean.
15:30 they’ll know it’s a time.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
And doctors, nurses, lab technicians, etc, plus anyone who can subtract twelve.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
what is that, like extra noon or something?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
No, we just have to do a little kindergarten (age 5) math, the difference between 12 and 15 is 3.
The 3rd-grade math (age 8) of figuring what time it will be 9 hours and 47 minutes later is equally difficult whether using 24h or am/pm. And may be easier using angles on an analog clockface, especially for an old fart like me.
The real problem with time isn’t 12h vs 24h. It’s the increments 12/24/60/30/15/5 when the rest of our system is base 10.
Oh and Daylight Savings. Jet lag without getting to go anywhere. Fuck that shit.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Pilot here, over been in the habit of using 12 hour for local time and 24 hour for zulu time. “12:45pm, 1745z”
Soulg@ani.social 7 hours ago
No, it’s just associated with military time and those who don’t have friends from across the pond don’t necessarily know that other countries use that time format.
Just kidding we’re all just stupid
corvi@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Only inasmuch as I have to count from 12 because I don’t have the built-in instinct for that time format.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
You’d get that instinct within at most a week though.
fartographer@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
If you see a two-digit number beginning with 1, drop the first number and subtract two from the second number. If your sum is negative, it’s that many hours before noon.
If your number begins with 2, do the same thing. If your number is negative, it’s that many hours before 10pm.
Aedis@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Anything to not subtract 12
fartographer@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I didn’t even know what that number says
tourist@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
One time I was on shrooms in the PMs and it was really hard to figure out what the time was. The literal digits and the concept of time itself at some point.
Otherwise, never had an issue.
Also, is 24hour time not default on most phones? Or did I do that and forget about it at some point, and it’s only me, never paying attention to the time on other people’s phones