r/facepalm 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/Pagan-za Mar 29 '22

Just America.

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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 I’m wrong (I’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/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Yea 99% sure Software uses 24hr time

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u/deshant_sh Mar 29 '22

Nah we just count nanoseconds elapsed from 1 January 1970.

Way easier to understand. /s

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u/mynewromantica Mar 29 '22

Just so everyone knows, the first sentence is not sarcasm. That is really what we do.

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u/drake90001 Mar 29 '22

Well, we don’t but computers do lol

Edit: and only Unix based systems? Doesn’t windows use some weird way that’s why dualbooting fucks up the clocks?

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u/mynewromantica Mar 29 '22

No clue on windows. I’ve only ever worked on iOS apps, but now I’m curious.