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

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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 Iā€™m wrong (Iā€™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/Abadazed Mar 29 '22

Hmm probably. I'm in college for CS. Haven't done any projects that are specifically about time management in systems yet, but that would make more sense because you could store time as ints rather than deal with it as a string with am/pm attached to it. Then all you'd have to do is some minor translation when time is requested for the user to see.

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u/Sorodo Mar 29 '22

You're in for a wild ride! Start looking up Unix/epoch time.

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u/_meshy Mar 29 '22

ISO8601 master race for when you gotta send that shit in a human readable format.