Comment on The opposite of shopaholic: shopcell

• LaVacaMariposa@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Even though you’re right, context is also important. They’re talking about working in an office, so it shouldn’t be difficult to understand that they’re referring to working 8 hours, from 6:30 AM to 2:30 PM

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• dkt@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do all Europeans choose to purposefully misinterpret information that is actually very easy to understand based on context?

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it’s worse that someone from programming.dev doesn’t understand time.

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  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The meaning is clear in this context, but not all of them. Especially when instead of a range of hours it is a single one.

    Although it is possible to determine they “probably meant this one”, why would you waste your time guessing based on context and risk being wrong when you can just use 24h and be precise.

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m confused by this comment.
  Do you not understand how to tell time?

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• thirteene@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  06:30-02:30 (note the 0!) means 6:30 am to 2:30 am the following day. Anything in pm would be +12 hours. 6:30 pm becomes 18:30; 2:30pm is 14:30. Using this format you want 06:30-14:30 which is 8 hours.

  This format is important because it actually solves the problem you are trying to explain (am/pm). Regularly I need to give EST database timestamps for a PST server cluster while living in another timezone myself and speaking to someone in India which is :30min difference in time zones and trying to account for daylight savings. Removing am/pm just makes it easier to track what happens in different places without looking at the wrong time window. Time math is messy and stupid, be specific by using 24 hours instead of 12

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  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why would anyone care about putting a 0 before the 6 in 6:30. It solves nothing

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s how international and military time works. It’s a four digit format.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just subtract 2 after 1300. That’s what works quicker in my head.

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  choose

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  • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Adding 12 to a number isnt that hard

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Neither is subtracting it. It appears we are at an impasse

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      • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Guessing if you need to subtract it is, however

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    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Guessing each time if 12 needs to be added (with usually important consequences if you guess wrong) is.

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      • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If you need to guess to convert, wouldnt you need to guess if its AM or PM?

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  • brb@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes

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  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah my company doesn’t care when I come and go as long as I work 40 hours and don’t miss meetings. 4 day workweeks are generally frowned upon but you can do it now and then.

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Did you reply to the wrong comment

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      • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think I just got confused, sorry.

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