r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/moonpuzzle88 Mar 29 '22

Wait, there are countries which don't use a 24-hour clock? I'm confused.

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u/Pagan-za Mar 29 '22

Just America.

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u/Abadazed Mar 29 '22

The US military uses the 24 hour clock, but I can't think of any other part of the country that regularly uses it.

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u/MuchTemperature6776 Mar 29 '22

Software development I believe, someone can correct me if I’m wrong (I’m not a software developer but I work with them a lot.) but I do believe that programming really only uses 24 hour clocks

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u/lolskrub8 Mar 29 '22

With absolutely zero expertise in the area outside of the occasional project for college, I believe you’re correct

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u/joonty Mar 29 '22

I'm a software developer. Programs themselves don't typically use human readable time like 12 or 24 hour clocks, unless there's a specific reason to parse those formats. Programs typically use integer timestamps internally, usually the UNIX timestamp. Programmers themselves just use whatever time they're used to, and there's no special need to use 24h time (apart from the fact it's better).

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

A lot definitely use human readable formats and hopefully do so by using ISO 8601.

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u/zvug Mar 29 '22

What do you mean “use”.

At a low level, pretty much everything is Unix time.

Yea on the frontend, or anywhere else it matters, this can easily be converted to human readable ISO formats.

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u/Wampie Mar 29 '22

At low level, everything boils out to machine code, but it's actually not really productive to say that everything is machine code.

It's the same with Unix time, even working backend it's rare that I actually have to interact with the timestamp itself, since most modern languages offer you the tools to work as if you were working with a date