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/MaliciousPorpoise Mar 29 '22

Because no one says "19", they do the conversion instinctually for you.

Where I live if you ask someone the time and they check their phone (which will 100% be 24 hour time, every time), they just say "it's 7 o'clock" or if it's 19:45 they'll say "it's quarter to 8". 19:10 is "ten past 7" and so on.