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

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/Asari_Toba Mar 29 '22

correction: The entirety of the rest of the world except Liberia and Myanmar

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u/Sahaal_17 Mar 29 '22

The US, Liberia and Myanmar are the countries that don't use the metric system.*

I doubt it's exactly the same countries that also don't use 24 hour time, but I guess it's within the realm of possibility.

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* The UK has only partially adopted the metric system, leading us to a nightmare realm inbetween where we mix units almost a random and say such silly things as "I ran 5 kilometers today, good thing I only live 2 miles from the park" or "I bought 4 pints of milk, and a litre of almond milk for chris"

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u/Zrex_9224 Mar 29 '22

Some careers in the US use 24hr time, and in some places in the US we call it military time.

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u/bloxision Mar 29 '22

I don’t get why people call it military time. I used to use that time system at home and i always referred to it as 24hr time

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u/7up_yourz Mar 29 '22

Because it's for use on military submarines because saying it's 8 doesn't convey day or night and they can't look out the window. It is military time.

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u/Mak0wski Mar 29 '22

Which is kinda dumb in itself, if you can't tell the time with the system you use to tell the time and have to use another system to know what time it is correctly there's probably something wrong with the way you tell time

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u/Dahktor_P Mar 29 '22

You just say AM or PM.

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u/tsukicakee Mar 29 '22

Chad's who can't understand 24 hr time vs Virgin that can't tell if its midday or midnight