• warm@kbin.earth
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    8 months ago

    I think there’s bigger problems if you have to process the time. If you’ve never heard it in your life, maybe you’d stop and think, but it’s honestly just something you learn and know, no thinking required.

    It’s like when people don’t know 24 hour time, when it’s something you’ve just grown up with, there’s no thinking and then you are confused when you hear people have to think about it or “calculate”.

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        8 months ago

        To be honest, it’s mainly just USA that just use 12-hour (and call 24-hour “military time”?), the large majority of the world use both interchangeably.

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        8 months ago

        Also adopt UTC as global time while we’re improving things. No more messing around with all those different time zones, one is enough.

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        8 months ago

        If we’re doing this I’m referring to the hour past midnight as 0:XX and not 24:XX and you can’t stop me

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          8 months ago

          Maybe I’m missing the joke, but I’m pretty sure 00:XX is correct.

          Please do not judge me too harshly if I’m wooshing.

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      8 months ago

      I have a friend that had issues telling time with analogue clocks when we studied together in a university. It really is just the matter of what you grew up with.

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      8 months ago

      I’ve been using 24 hour time for the past few years and I still have trouble with it from time to time and have to calculate it in my head.

      Also, a different example of something similar is how old I am. Despite knowing my birth year, I still struggle recalling how old I am I still have to take a moment to calculate it.