I get the joke, but the sundials of ancient civilisations precluded clocks.
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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.
Instructions unclear, I think my fleshlight is broken..
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That’s why for a long time, and even longer in the Royal Navy, the new day started at noon and not midnight.
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.
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
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Yup, that's why we still don't have any clocks to this day.
It is wild how people refuse to use the 24 hour clock. It is so logical and easy. kind of like the metric system…..
First thing I change on every electronic device I buy.
And really annoying when something only has 12hr mode
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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24 hour analogue clocks exist. I have a 24 hour watch which only revolves once per 24 hours. It's a disadvantage though.
The reason why clocks and watches display 12 hours at a time is so that they have space to show finer resolution of time. If you try to cram 24 hours onto a clock, it's not easy to tell if it's 12:20 or 12:30 at a quick glance.
Most people are not too stupid to be aware of if they are in the first 12 hours or second 12 hours of a day, so they benefit from a watch with 12 hour timescale and finer resolution so that they can more easily see exactly what time it is.
And for all the dummies posting about 12h vs 24h clocks. In the sense of saying that it's 1pm vs 13:00. That's not what this meme is even describing. This is about the physical layout of a clock or watch face.
I can't believe this is the first I'm hearing of 24-hour analogue clocks! That's so cool. But yeah, I see your point about it now allowing for very much precision at a glance.
If 12 is better than 24 we should build 6 hour analog clocks already!
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Let's just switch to metric time. https://metric-time.com/
We're on Metric time already, the base unit of measure for time in the Metric system is the second. This is decimal time.
Ugh I can hear it now
In our relentless pursuit of innovation, we are proud to announce the switch from the outdated 24-hour clock to Metric Time™.
Effective immediately, your standard 8-hour workday will now be... 8 metric hours.
That’s 80% of the entire day. Because nothing says “work-life balance” like leaving 2 hours for life.
Embrace the future. You’re already late.
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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
Most of that time is irrelevant to me. Let’s just start it in 1970. And I need more precision, so can we do milliseconds instead of seconds?
This would go great with my idea of everyone having a GUID instead of a name.
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Only noobs start counting at 1. Midnight = 24:00 = 00:00
Alright, I'm calling a 4.1666666666666666666666666666 metric hour meeting to discuss this!
The meeting might run to a full 5 metric hours.
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Its possible to create a new time format/ system, the problem is how to standardise it everywhere
Easy, use the metric time.
9:30 PM would just become Hour 89.58333333/100 of the day 😉
No use imperial, eg. 1 gallon is equal to 2,4899 feet mutliplied with 8,67763 nuggets, therefore you need to work five big mac longer
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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Clocks are based on sundials. The little hand roughly follows where a shadow would be. The rest is just what people agreed on made the most sense.
Haven’t seen this one this week. Thanks
The 6 means 6, 18, AND 30.
Isn't this a standup routine?
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