Clock logic

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  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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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    It only solves a small part of the issue at the cost of less convenience and consistency. Propose a “metric” time that solves more of this issue problem and I’m all for it

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  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    First thing I change on every electronic device I buy.

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    • spazzman6156@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      And really annoying when something only has 12hr mode

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• Admetus@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I get the joke, but the sundials of ancient civilisations precluded clocks.

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  • naught@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    “Precluded” means “prevented” or to “make impossible” ❤️

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sundials also didn’t work very well at midnight for some reason, what’s ya point?

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’re just not holding the flashlight properly.

      If you hold the flashlight right they work 100% of the time.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s why for a long time, and even longer in the Royal Navy, the new day started at noon and not midnight.

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  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s all the Babylonians fault

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    • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Those fuckers could count to 60 on their fingers. Witchcraft!

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  • hakase@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    precluded

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• BenevolentOne@infosec.pub ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  My pet theory is (circa 10000 BCE) that ‘houses’ and ‘hours’ are related words, the 12 hour clock matched the zodiac, each hour/house was 1 Assyrian ‘watch’ and they had no trouble day or night (constellations at night, sundial during the day), they were easy to build, easy to communicate, easy to understand and efficient.

  Then the Egyptians stole the technology (Circa 6000BCE) said ‘12 hours in a day? I got you bro’, fucked it up and it all went downhill from there.

  Feel free to quote me in your prize winning scientific paper.

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• Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  The clock makes so much more sense when you make the 12 a 0

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  maybe this is because i grew up in a house that had a clock with handn 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.

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  • Derpenheim@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When the minutes hand is over the 6, 30 minutes have passed

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    • jdnewmil@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      whoosh!

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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      There is no six. Clock faces have big and little ticks and a 12 maybe.

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  • Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Poor lad never learned the code

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    3π/2

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Another classic meme. Love to see it getting a proper repost after all these long weeks.

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• Whelks_chance@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Isn’t this a standup routine?

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