I might be evil because now I want a clock like that only with the 1 starting where the 4 is.
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OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A guy I know owns this clock, which basically proves that everything in life is pointless and arbitrary: Image
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OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t think you’re evil, but there is definitely something wrong with you. lol
brianorca@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It wouldn’t be that hard. Once you get a clock like this with the reverse movement, you can just open the face glass, remove the hands, and print a new graphic for the background.
1luv8008135@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Weird, this feels easier to read. Less grating somehow.
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You left-handed?
Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Hey, don’t put us all in the same bag ! I am left-handed and i still got weirded out by it. He’s just a weird guy that may happen to be left-handed.
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m also left-handed and weirded-out by it. I was just wondering, lol.
Also, right-handed people suck. Southpaws unite!
1luv8008135@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nope. Right handed. But AuDHD like there’s no tomorrow…
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I guess you’re ok. I’m more of an ass man, myself, but I’ll allow it.
BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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EdanGrey@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I have one of these, it was a gag gift from a friend. I’ve had it up so long now though I have to double check which clock in looking at before I tell the time because I’ve got so used to it
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s pretty cool. Also, your username contains an anagram of the name of the man who owns the clock from my comment. That’s also pretty cool.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Oh, you mean like the order of the Alphabet?
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s actually the only non-arbitrary thing in existence. If the alphabet wasn’t in alphabetical order, we’d all be dead right now.
ki77erb@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is correct. Alphabetical Order is one of the fundamental laws of nature. A universal constant.
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I like how I was joking but we still ratio’d that guy.
lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Alphabetic order is completely facist nonsense. Obviously the n should come before the m.
#wakeupsheeple
rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Also why the seemingly arbitrary graduations, 24 hours, 60 minutes, 60 seconds. If it was say 10 hours in a day, 100 minutes in an hour, 100 seconds in a minute, seconds would be close to the same amount of time. Same with latitude and longitude, why 360 degrees in a circle with 60 minutes in a degree and 60 seconds in a minute.
beefcat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
These numbers aren’t arbitrary, they are from different base numbering systems.
60 can easily divide by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10.
12 can easily divide by 2, 3, 4, and 6 (notice how much overlap there is).
10 only divides easily by 2 and 5. Common fractions like 1/4 or 1/3 now require decimals.
Basically, base 12 and base 60 make it significantly easier to think and work in common fractions.
It is also historically significant, as base 12 used to be more common than modern base 10. Our timekeeping system dates back to the ancient Babylonians, who worked in base 12. This influence is still felt in other places, such as the fact that eleven and twelve have unique names in many languages rather than following the same pattern as everything that comes after them.
superkret@feddit.de 10 months ago
It’s all based on 12, which is nice cause it’s divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6.
A system based on 10 gives you issues if you want to divide the year into 4 seasons, the day into morning, midday, evening and night, the compass into cardinal directions, etc…seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Morning, midday, evening and night are arbitrary. Why not just morning and night? Why not morning, mid-midday, midday, evening, mid-evening, and night?
The number of seasons is likewise arbitrary. Some Native American tribes had more than 4 seasons.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The short explanation is that those numbers are more easily divided by a larger set of denominators. 24 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, and 12. 100 is divisble by 2, 5, 10, 25, and 50. 60 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30.
Metric is great for scaling up and down ad infinitum, but it sucks for fractions. Fractions are easier for daily use without precision measuring equipment.
Harrison@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
The units of time we use come from a bronze age civilisation that used base twelve instead of base ten. They’d count on their hands using the finger joints of one for single digits, and then the joints of the other for multiples.
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 10 months ago
That’s called Decimal time and revolutionary France already tried it.
FunkFactory@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Other commenters hit on the reasoning, just adding that they’re called highly composite numbers. My favorite!
wahming@monyet.cc 10 months ago
You just flipped the image!
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kadu@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I find this deeply unsettling, please delete