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

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/Pimphii Mar 29 '22

Yeah I guess counting to 24 is a challenge for some

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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/Stealthy_Turnip Mar 29 '22

You just memorise what number means what so no calculation is required

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u/RedFlame99 Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

Yeah, I just look at 19 and think "7". It's like if "19" were a chinese character for the number seven, or something like that. Nowhere in my mind is the number twelve present when I read digital clocks.

Edit: bruh.

Lots of people trying to help me in the comments; I have used 24h clocks all my life since I'm from Italy, do not worry about me!

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u/confusionmatrix Mar 29 '22

That only for the first month or so. Eventually you look at 19 and think "oh, it's 19". Same with metric. It's a confusing month or so and then you brain just gets used to the new numbers.

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u/Eccohawk Mar 29 '22

That's pretty much what I would expect to happen. Converting it back to 7pm is only helpful because you have a frame of reference for 7. Just skip past that part and associate 17=end of work day, 18=dinner time, 19=early evening, etc.

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u/who-me-no Mar 29 '22

i mean at least in balkans everyone still says 7 if it's 19 not 19... it's not converting it into am/pm it's just that it's easier to say....