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[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

The 6 means 30, both of which also mean 1/2

[–] folekaule@lemmy.world 95 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At least our hours are the same length regardless of latitude now, so let's be grateful for that.

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[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Clocks should use 24h format. AM/PM is completely useless.

[–] neonred@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No it's not, with a 12h format on an analog watch you can use the sun to find true north. It is also easier to read it when the hands have double the amount of degrees to indicate the number.

Edit -- digital watches should use 24h, I fully agree, maybe there was a misunderstanding because it's analog watches we're talking about here and these could stay 12h IMHO

[–] Hoimo@ani.social 5 points 1 day ago (12 children)

How do you find north on a 12h face that wouldn't work with a 24h face? Because the method I know, requires correcting for the 12h circle.

[–] neonred@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Hoimo@ani.social 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yeah, that's the method I know.

Divide the angle that is made in half

And that's how you correct for the 12h face.

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[–] mhague@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

It sounds like a joke but I really had someone stop me on the street to ask for the time and when I said 2:30 they asked "AM or PM?" I guess a 24 hour clock would've prevented that.

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Somebody gave me this clock…I just need the time.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Relatively funny but gets worse the more you think about it.

The 6 stands for 6, not 30.

When we have AM and PM it would be dumb to have 1-24.

1 is the end of the 1st hour. 2 the end of the second. This is why it starts at 0.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] WhatsTheHoldup@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't listen to OP's bullshit.

They work for big clock. They're trying to convince you 12 hour clock is useless so they can sell you double the clock.

[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago

Wouldn’t you need half the clock if it had twice the numbers?

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[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I only recently learned the etymology of the word: "second"

Its name comes from being the "second" division of the hour, with the minute being the first.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'll see you in 5 firsts, 2 seconds and 7 thirds.

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

Days start at 0h, not 12h

It can't start at 12 hours if there are 24 segments.

And keep your letters out of it too.

[–] tauren@lemm.ee 24 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Days start at 0h, not 12h

Show me where is the zero here?

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (7 children)

The AM/PM bullshit:

AM: 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Then the same for PM. Who counts like that? Whats after 12? 1! What?

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[–] StThicket@reddthat.com 17 points 1 day ago (6 children)

When I become dictator of the world, this will be the new time unit: https://metric-time.com/

The year will also have 13 months: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

The year will be 12025: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar

Because these things just make more sense. You will thank me after a few generations, because habits are hard to change.

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sundials.

Now if you want to get really pissed, the magnetic North Pole is actually the South Pole of the Earth’s magnetic field. We call it the North Pole because the north side of a magnet points to it.

[–] randomblock1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Actually, we call it the North Pole because we already had a concept of North from the North Star. Then we invented magnets and decided that the part that points North is the North side of a magnet (despite North Pole being magnetic south).

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[–] Lucien@mander.xyz 27 points 1 day ago (6 children)

We have Babylon to thank for this

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 32 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Well, then I can't complain, lovely sci-fi production.

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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

If you want to be mad about time then I'd like to introduce you to a little thing I like to call the Gregorian calendar.

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