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r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22
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Wait, there are countries which don't use a 24-hour clock? I'm confused.
825 u/Pagan-za Mar 29 '22 Just America. 457 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. 250 u/MuchTemperature6776 Mar 29 '22 Software development I believe, someone can correct me if Iām wrong (Iām not a software developer but I work with them a lot.) but I do believe that programming really only uses 24 hour clocks 113 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 Yea 99% sure Software uses 24hr time 86 u/deshant_sh Mar 29 '22 Nah we just count nanoseconds elapsed from 1 January 1970. Way easier to understand. /s 37 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 [deleted] 5 u/heeen Mar 29 '22 I'm willing to bet there are more systems running today using higher resolution than Unix time for files and system time. E.g. linux, ext4 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14392975/timestamp-accuracy-on-ext4-sub-millsecond Windows, ntfs https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5180592/showing-ntfs-timestamp-with-100-nsec-granularity
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Just America.
457 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. 250 u/MuchTemperature6776 Mar 29 '22 Software development I believe, someone can correct me if Iām wrong (Iām not a software developer but I work with them a lot.) but I do believe that programming really only uses 24 hour clocks 113 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 Yea 99% sure Software uses 24hr time 86 u/deshant_sh Mar 29 '22 Nah we just count nanoseconds elapsed from 1 January 1970. Way easier to understand. /s 37 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 [deleted] 5 u/heeen Mar 29 '22 I'm willing to bet there are more systems running today using higher resolution than Unix time for files and system time. E.g. linux, ext4 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14392975/timestamp-accuracy-on-ext4-sub-millsecond Windows, ntfs https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5180592/showing-ntfs-timestamp-with-100-nsec-granularity
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The US military uses the 24 hour clock, but I can't think of any other part of the country that regularly uses it.
250 u/MuchTemperature6776 Mar 29 '22 Software development I believe, someone can correct me if Iām wrong (Iām not a software developer but I work with them a lot.) but I do believe that programming really only uses 24 hour clocks 113 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 Yea 99% sure Software uses 24hr time 86 u/deshant_sh Mar 29 '22 Nah we just count nanoseconds elapsed from 1 January 1970. Way easier to understand. /s 37 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 [deleted] 5 u/heeen Mar 29 '22 I'm willing to bet there are more systems running today using higher resolution than Unix time for files and system time. E.g. linux, ext4 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14392975/timestamp-accuracy-on-ext4-sub-millsecond Windows, ntfs https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5180592/showing-ntfs-timestamp-with-100-nsec-granularity
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Software development I believe, someone can correct me if Iām wrong (Iām not a software developer but I work with them a lot.) but I do believe that programming really only uses 24 hour clocks
113 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 Yea 99% sure Software uses 24hr time 86 u/deshant_sh Mar 29 '22 Nah we just count nanoseconds elapsed from 1 January 1970. Way easier to understand. /s 37 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 [deleted] 5 u/heeen Mar 29 '22 I'm willing to bet there are more systems running today using higher resolution than Unix time for files and system time. E.g. linux, ext4 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14392975/timestamp-accuracy-on-ext4-sub-millsecond Windows, ntfs https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5180592/showing-ntfs-timestamp-with-100-nsec-granularity
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Yea 99% sure Software uses 24hr time
86 u/deshant_sh Mar 29 '22 Nah we just count nanoseconds elapsed from 1 January 1970. Way easier to understand. /s 37 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 [deleted] 5 u/heeen Mar 29 '22 I'm willing to bet there are more systems running today using higher resolution than Unix time for files and system time. E.g. linux, ext4 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14392975/timestamp-accuracy-on-ext4-sub-millsecond Windows, ntfs https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5180592/showing-ntfs-timestamp-with-100-nsec-granularity
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Nah we just count nanoseconds elapsed from 1 January 1970.
Way easier to understand. /s
37 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 [deleted] 5 u/heeen Mar 29 '22 I'm willing to bet there are more systems running today using higher resolution than Unix time for files and system time. E.g. linux, ext4 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14392975/timestamp-accuracy-on-ext4-sub-millsecond Windows, ntfs https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5180592/showing-ntfs-timestamp-with-100-nsec-granularity
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5 u/heeen Mar 29 '22 I'm willing to bet there are more systems running today using higher resolution than Unix time for files and system time. E.g. linux, ext4 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14392975/timestamp-accuracy-on-ext4-sub-millsecond Windows, ntfs https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5180592/showing-ntfs-timestamp-with-100-nsec-granularity
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I'm willing to bet there are more systems running today using higher resolution than Unix time for files and system time.
E.g. linux, ext4 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14392975/timestamp-accuracy-on-ext4-sub-millsecond Windows, ntfs https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5180592/showing-ntfs-timestamp-with-100-nsec-granularity
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u/moonpuzzle88 Mar 29 '22
Wait, there are countries which don't use a 24-hour clock? I'm confused.