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At least we're not mixing in letters (sub.wetshaving.social)

submitted 3 months ago by weird@sub.wetshaving.social to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Well it’s because noon means nine because the day starts at six o’ clock, so three is noon, but we use it to mean twelve which is closer to midday, obviously

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 8 points 3 months ago (9 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.

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

In Ethiopia they still use the tradition time where the day starts at the 1:00 which is our 6am. Then 12:00 is our 6PM, and it starts over. So they have 2 cycles of 12 hours, one for daytime, and one for night time. And it felt somewhat more intuitively in conversation too.

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[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I say we divide the day into 100 sections. No reason really I just think it’d be cool to party until 100 o’clock.

[–] dxdydz@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months ago

You might like reading about decimal time…

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[–] demunted@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Also see this: https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca

It amazingly explains all the insanities for handling dates and times.

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