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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You might like reading about decimal time…

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