It is wild how people refuse to use the 24 hour clock. It is so logical and easy. kind of like the metric system…..
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First thing I change on every electronic device I buy.
And really annoying when something only has 12hr mode
I don't want to believe that time goes on for that long.
I'd rather a 6 hour clock.
I'd prefer base 10 time than base 12. Until then I'll just keep with am pm
I'd prefer base 12 for everything
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I get the joke, but the sundials of ancient civilisations precluded clocks.
Sundials also didn't work very well at midnight for some reason, what's ya point?
You're just not holding the flashlight properly.
If you hold the flashlight right they work 100% of the time.
That's when we bring out the moondial.
The firedial works every night.
Instructions unclear, I think my fleshlight is broken..
Sundials also didn’t work very well at midnight for some reason, what’s ya point?
Noon is the center of the dial. Midnight is just the opposite of noon.
I cannot tell if this is sarcasm or not. This is peak Poe's Law.
That’s why for a long time, and even longer in the Royal Navy, the new day started at noon and not midnight.
It's all the Babylonians fault
Those fuckers could count to 60 on their fingers. Witchcraft!
Using binary, we could count to 1023 with 10 fingers but only 511 with 9 fingers
Boys could count to 2047.
Yup, that's why we still don't have any clocks to this day.
Alright, I'm calling a 4.1666666666666666666666666666 metric hour meeting to discuss this!
The meeting might run to a full 5 metric hours.
"Hey sweetie, please come home by Hour 89.58333333/100 otherwise I'm gonna have to ground you for a week, love you!"
there's 86400 seconds in a day. If we use a new unit that is slightly shorter than a second as a metric second, we can do 100000 metric seconds a day, with 100 metric seconds per metric minutes, and 100 metric minutes per metric hour, and each day having 10 metric hours.
Your 1 hour activity now takes 0.5 metric hours (it might be 20% longer, but that's arbitrary anyways, we rounded them to the closest hour anyways)
We are only used to the current system because we have been using it.
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Keep it simple and just measure in terms of seconds since the Big Bang. The current time is 435,884,579,968,052,736 seconds, easy peasy
Nah just use Unix time
technically that is 64 bit unix time.
The big bang was definitely not in 1970
They had to pick a period where 32 bits would last long enough. If they had started with 64 bits, they could have used a start of time much further back.
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The clock makes so much more sense when you rewrite the 12 as a 0
I never confirmed this, but I noticed that in parts of West Africa, people wouldn't say "afternoon" until after 1:00pm. Since greetings were important, I started noticing it more and more when peoe would say "good morning" during lunch at 12:30pm. As if the 12 noon hour is still part of the time segment.
Babylonians: I see this as a complete win.
maybe this is because i grew up in a house that had a clock with hands but no numbers, but wth do you mean "the 6 means 30".
analogue clocks consists of two progress bars. the numbers are just for convenience.
3π/2
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