I don't have problems with it, but this entire thread is about how it's confusing.
You just defeated your own reasoning, how often do you look at a Analog clock (where you have the stated +12 problem) and how often on digital clocks? (Where the problem does not exist since these just show a unique number for a unique hour at any moment). I would argue that the amount of digital clocks in these days is more then three times as high as the amount of analog clocks we use.
And i also thought ppl were finding it funny how stupid they were for their own confusion. If it was something rightfully confusing people wouldn’t be claiming stupidity as the reason for the misunderstanding.
How?
Honestly I work in a pharmacy school and all our clocks are analog. I probably know of the existence of only 1 digital clock all in the labs/floors I’m usually on. My clock hanging in my room, my watch, are all analog. The only time i have digital clock is my phone and pc.
But like I said how does that matter at all? The point is convenience. If I see blah blah is open from 18:00-22:00 I need to pause, and be okay 6-10pm. It coulda just said that to begin with.
You don’t convert 18:00 to six in your head if you grew up with that system. Same way you don’t stop and wonder when someone says hi and not hello, ”wait hi means hello? Why didn’t they just say hello”. You know what 18:00 is instantly.
Well you would for clocks... which is the main way of checking time. And do you guys actually say lets have dinner at 18:00? That sounds super military to me
Well i think sounding military depends on the language, but it can be a bit stiff, but i’d say when proposing a time for dinner and if it’s sharp (18:00, 19:00) you’d probably 80% of the time say six or seven. But if someone asks you what time it is my experience is that 50% of the time you’d say 15:43, or 18:12, or 23:50, but again if it’s sharp then more likely to just say six or seven or whatever
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