There are two comments here:
- I can count to 24
- I get confused by 12PM
The real crime is dividing the day into 24h, 60m per hour, 60s per min.
America
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Gaja0@lemmy.zip 23 minutes ago
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 minutes ago
A LOT of western measurement was base 12, the only reason people are so used to base 10 is because that’s how many fingers most people have. Base 12 is really useful however, it is uniquely divisible and 60 as 5*12 is even more so.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
As someone who grew up with a 24-hour clock, I can deal with 12 hours. Usually there’s no confusion if your store opens at 7am or 7pm. But 12:30PM being a valid time and meaning ‘00:30 on the next day’ fucks me up every time.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
12:30 AM is 00:30 though?
They shouldn’t even have 12 on the clock, it should be 0 because the 12 hour clock is module 12.
MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Case and point as to why it’s confusing lmao
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
12:30PM means 30 minutes after 12-noon.
People saying that and meaning the middle of the night are just wrong, and if that’s a genuine thing it would drive me quite mad.
30 minutes after midnight is 12:30AM
exu@feditown.com 3 hours ago
Perfectly illustrates how it doesn’t make sense.
I can get behind
- 11.30pm
- 12.30pm
- 1.30am
Or
- 11.30pm
- 0.30am
- 1.30am
But
- 11.30pm
- 12.30am
- 1.30am
just doesn’t make sense.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
As I said, it always fucks me up. The AM/PM indicator wraps at a different hour than the hours. Aaargh!
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Literally this. I was never in the military, and I’m glad they literally can’t draft me unless they lower a lot of requirements really fast. But 24-hour time is just so much more sensible. There’s no “AM or PM?” follow-up question, no guesswork. It just makes sense.
If they made metric time, I’d adopt that shit in a heartbeat.
arctanthrope@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
the standard time that almost everyone uses is metric, i.e. is part of the metric system, its units are SI units. there was a system of decimal time, if that’s what you mean, developed in France during the revolution, where a day is 10 hours, each 100 minutes, each 100 seconds
so a decimal hour is 2.4 standard hours
a decimal minute is 1.44 standard minutes
a decimal second is 0.864 standard seconds
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
12:30 pm is half-past noon.
12:30 am is half past midnight, or as you would say 00:30
The m is “meridian” which is noon (sun straight up)
The a is ante/before and the p is post/after
In olden days it was easier to look up and set your clock at noon than midnight.
feannag@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
By the definition of post meridian, though, half past noon should be 0:30 pm.
homes@piefed.world 4 hours ago
This teaches you the value of terms like “half past noon“ and “half past midnight“
_stranger_@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
In Europe they say “point five past noon” and “point two five to midnight”
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It doesn’t mean that.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 4 hours ago
“Closes at 25:00” is funny too
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
But luckily unambiguous.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
are Americans really confused with 15:30?
corvi@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Only inasmuch as I have to count from 12 because I don’t have the built-in instinct for that time format.
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 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.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour 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 25 minutes 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 40 minutes ago
I’m regularly looking at log timestamps and I still need a very brief half second to think about the time lol
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 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 1 hour ago
And doctors, nurses, lab technicians, etc, plus anyone who can subtract twelve.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
what is that, like extra noon or something?
Soulg@ani.social 1 hour 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
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
12 hour time is a scam created by clockmakers who wanted to save paint.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
24hr analog watches are the real shit, though!
Had a good emulated one on my phone homescreen for a long time, but unfortunately app is not supported by newer versions of Android any more… :-(
InterestingUsername@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Wow, never knew that was a thing
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
Are you talking about a watch with 24 different numbers on it?
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
Are you talking about a watch with 24 different numbers on it?
Yes, arranged in a circle, 24 at the top, 12 at the bottom, lower part is day, upper part is night.
App also had a daylight indication shading depending on local sunrise/sunset.
Loved it!
arctanthrope@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’ve been thinking for a while about getting a slow watch, a 24-hour watch that only has an hour hand
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
l like the idea, but I suspect it often might have the opposite effect as intended.
Imagine e.g. taking a quick glance at the watch to determine if you will still catch the bus - this would most likely result in you sprinting to the bus stop just to be on the safe side…
invertedspear@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Dealing with dates and times in software will get you formatting using year-month-date and 24 hour time as the least possible chance for confusion.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Date-Month-Year makes more sense to me
Raptorox@sh.itjust.works 23 minutes ago
Higher chance for it to be interpreted as Month-Date-Year than Year-Month-Date though
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
fuck timezones. fuck timezones so god damned hard.
everything should be UTC. period.
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
My sleep schedule is shit. I set everything to 24 hours so that I don’t wake up at 8 PM and think that I’m late for my work at 8 AM.
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 hours ago
Someone can’t count past 12.
MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s cause crayons that come in 24 packs taste better than the 12 packs
roguetrick@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
And nurses I guess.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
if I was crayons and let another guy fuck my wife am I larping? would it be stolen valor
lol_idk@piefed.social 3 hours ago
When it was super critical I wake or not get paid while working in remote areas, you only have to set your alarm to the wrong am/pm once to change to 24 hour time
gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 16 minutes ago
I do it because then I don’t put my calendar appointments in at oh, 3:00 AM.
15:00 is SOOOOOO much better for adhd me.