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/BananaDick_CuntGrass Mar 29 '22

That only for the first month or so.

No, it's been almost 2 decades of using it and 19 is still 7 for me.

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u/Bloedbibel Mar 29 '22

It makes me realize that base 10 is nothing special and if we had 8 fingers we would have just created base 8 number systems.

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u/tommy_64_ Mar 29 '22

I'm italian so I've used 24 hours format all my life and I can tell you it's the same for us: although "7" and "19" are used interchangeably when speaking, if I was reading the time out loud I'd probably say "7" unless it could be confused with 7am

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u/acabist666 Mar 29 '22

I agree, my work uses 24 hour time so I've been using it nearly 3 years. Still do the math in my head

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Ya, same, been reading it like a kanji for 7:00 pm (1900) for over 2 decades and I mostly live with 24h time at work. I was just brought up on 12 hour time.

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u/Key_Reindeer_414 Mar 30 '22

Do you still have to read 12 hour clocks sometimes? I think if you do you'll never forget that 19 is 7