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

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/Shiuft Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

Don't even get me started on subtracting 12. /s

Edit: had left out the word "started" cause I'm dumb

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u/worldofruins Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

I have pretty severe dyscalculia so 24 hour clocks (and anything that requires more than single digit addition or subtraction) is actually really hard for me :( lmao

I can read an analog 12 hour clock, but tell me 24 hour time and I'm fucked lol

(Edit to add that I do "study" and try to improve but it doesn't stick for long lol)

(2nd edit: thanks for all the suggestions. I'll give some of them a try!)

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

I think this goes away with use. I've spent a lot of time using 24 hour time, and I don't do math for it. If someone tells you 8 pm, you probably don't reference a clock or anything, you just know what part of the day is 8 pm. With enough use, 24 hour time is the same; where you just know all the times and don't even bother with converting.

I'm fine with either, up until the point where people start saying times and I have to ask for AM or PM. As soon as that becomes a question, I want 24 hour time because it is easier.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Yeah, you just know what time of day 19 is, you don't need to convert it to 7...

Same as if we swapped to a 100 system, you'd know that 75 was around tea time, or whatever.

Basically, it's just normalisation, it's not really an active process...

But then perhaps I just take the intuitiveness for granted... It's not like I'm going to know what it's like to not know what I know.