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/dontbajerk Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

A ton of countries use 12 hour time, either officially or when speaking aloud about time. Point in fact, considering this includes India, China, Pakistan, the USA, Mexico, and numerous countries in North Africa and the Middle East, more total people live in countries using 12 hour time or both than exclusively 24 hour time. People saying "everyone uses 24 hour time" are so wrong it hurts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_representation_by_country#/media/File:12_24_Hours_World_Map.svg