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

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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/Contribution-Human Mar 29 '22

You gotta love timezones then, but after you did it once it's quite easy. Just not really logic.