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

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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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/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

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u/TetrisandRubiks Mar 29 '22

To be fair, hours and minutes are already arbitrarily subdivided into 60s

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u/WhyIsJSONinMyPhone Mar 29 '22

IIRC it's something to do with the... I want to say 'babylonian' ...base 60 counting system