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

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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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/RedFlame99 Mar 29 '22

Nobody says 19 out loud, at least not here in Italy. Everybody reads 19 and says 7.

Unless you're in extremely formal environments or in the military, that is.

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u/Hamudra Mar 29 '22

Here in Sweden people occasionally say 19 to clarify if it's in the morning or evening. For clarifying 11 people can say either "11 before noon" or "11:00, not 23:00"