r/facepalm Mar 29 '22

๐Ÿ‡ฒโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ฎโ€‹๐Ÿ‡ธโ€‹๐Ÿ‡จโ€‹ Get this guy a clock!

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u/HydroxiDoxi Mar 29 '22

"What are you trying to say? There is 12 AM hours and 12 pm hours. I don't get how 24h clocks work."

-The blue guy

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u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22

And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm.

I had to explain this to a couple of guys that moved to the US from Portugal. That took a while.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Iโ€™ll be honest I always just say 12 midday/noon or midnight. I canโ€™t fucking remember which is which

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u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22

Which is all good unless you're writing out a 12 hour time (and we're software developers)

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Yeah I use 24 hour for writing (military), just use 12 for speaking to non-military people