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mIlItArY tImE
Americans: ‘Military Time’
The rest of the world: ‘Time’
It’s not nearly that clean of a split. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_representation_by_country
The split is Americans calling it military time when it’s just a 24 hour clock
Guys, the joke is he only dates women until they turn 24. That’s the joke.
And then dates a new born apparently
I never understood AMs and PMs. We start at 12, count upwards to 11, and do that twice? No fuck that, I just use a 24-hour clock.
What’s worse is that you get 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm… Who the fuck thought that was a good idea?
Ante meridiem and post meridiem. Before and after noon. (Noon being true noon, when the sun is at it’s highest point) Everything after 12:00 exactly is after noon and it makes more sense to change the notation there than 12:01.
why would post malone do this to us
We really should count up to meridian and then back down.
12 should be 0, 0:00 is noon and 0:01 the minute after.
1:23 is 1•60+23 minutes after noon or midnight.
Without doing any further research, I bet it’s a holdover from using Roman numerals (which has no 0) on clock faces.
I recall 0 had a fear around it, in the same way as negative numbers and complex numbers. People didn’t consider it real and refused to use it.
Zero as a placeholder for arabic numbers was used long before people became comfortable with “a number without digits”; zero was just a placeholder, not a digit.
I tried finding when zero as a number became used, but found that really hard since everyone instead talks about the digit/placeholder.
Best I found is number.wiki which states India started using it as a number around 600. The introduction and popularization in europe around 12-1600 had it introduced as purely a placeholder though. “The nine Indian figures are: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. With these nine figures, and with the sign 0 … any number may be written”
This is why it’s specifically AFTER 12:00:00am it changes room at 12:00:01.
That doesn’t make it any better. In fact, it makes it worse, as you now got an am/pm shift in the middle of an hour. Compare this to the 24 hour time: it starts at midnight (00:00:00), and grows predictably up to 23:59:59.
Changes… room?
yeah… wait, your room doesn’t change every day?
I think my room changes whenever my feets do the thing, there’s like ten rooms in this place and billions more outside.
are you saying am/pm change happens one second after 12? because no, they happen at the instant of 12.
More complex (so more cost), harder to read at a glance, you’d want to start at the bottom so that midday is at the top to align with the sun, absolutely minimal difference vs 12h clocks. This assumes a physical clock (face), not digital, but by the time (heh) digital came around it’s not like anybody is going to change anything.
Now you understand am/pm.
Cool. Why is 10+5=3?
I hate this shit.
We just went over this but okay
cuz da Vinci was based12
only cool people can cout to 210 on their fingers.
I can count to any number on one hand because I know how how to count in ASL 😎
We call ‘em “Ol’ RAM Hands” for all those 1024 bits per byte!
How many “baud” is that, you Gen Z fuckers? Lmao
we’re talking about masturbation in case you missed it
ugh… of course you are
back in my day, we had sex with other people! IT WAS AWESOME
Edit: you kids just need to learn that getting close— it’s just the beginning…
Just be careful with 4, 128, and especially both (132)
I don’t know whether that was on purpose, but I don’t know many people that want to
cout << 0b10000000000;.
Ok that’s freaking me out because I count form the inside joint out, so your 3 is where 1 should be etc.
While the AM/PM system is perfect for the American ruling class.
Deci-bino quaternal?
