The U.S. 12h clock is stupid: 12PM + 1h = 1PM
If you don't use a 24h clock at least do it like the Japanese, who also use the 12h clock and have: 0:00 PM + 1h = 1:00 PM
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
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that just moves the weird math, because 11:00 + 1h = 00:00... The fact that clocks are a circle means there is some weird math like this happening somewhere no matter the system.
Not really 11:00 AM +1h becomes 00:00 PM, and vice versa. PM and AM are different prefixes/systems/units. Much simpler to understand IMO. 12:00 AM and 12:00 PM would no longer exist, you just convert them from PM to AM or back when you reach them and set the numbers to 00 again.
This is basically the same system as the regular 12:00 clock except noon and midnight are 00:00 instead of 12:00.
Seems functionality the same to me.
24 hour is the only way. If only I could convince people to stay saying "15 O'Clock". That would be neato. People know what it is, just not used to it
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Aand that's Numberwang!
This joke has lived in my head quietly for at least a decade.
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Well, it's still a far plan than the time the French tried to force time into base 10......
Which might have been the first documented demonstration of the saying "The French follow no one. And no one follows the French."
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So ancient Mesopotamians used to count on their hands slightly different. They wouldn't count their thumbs, instead they would count each knuckle with their thumb so, 3 knuckles per finger and 4 fingers each hand
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86,400 is not a perfect cube (or any other power) so unless you change the number of seconds in a day you’re not getting a way to perfectly represent 3 different sized time measurements in the same circle without something like 6=30m/30s
We could just change time… again… to make seconds slightly longer and have there be 85,184 seconds in a day. And then 44 seconds in a minute and 44 minutes in an hour and 44 hours in a day…. But 44 is a lot of numbers to put around a clock just because you’re too lazy to multiply by 2 or 5, shit 2nd graders can do so…. Nah.
fun fact during the si process there was also a proposal to make a minute 100 seconds and an hour 100 minute and a day 10 hours (and adjust the second length so that it still syncs up with the sun ofc) but it never got implemented, probably because auf big clock-manufecturing puts on alu hat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QVPUIRGthI : reminded me of this, my Dad used to love this!
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