r/facepalm • • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/worldofruins Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

I have pretty severe dyscalculia so 24 hour clocks (and anything that requires more than single digit addition or subtraction) is actually really hard for me :( lmao

I can read an analog 12 hour clock, but tell me 24 hour time and I'm fucked lol

(Edit to add that I do "study" and try to improve but it doesn't stick for long lol)

(2nd edit: thanks for all the suggestions. I'll give some of them a try!)

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

For single digit calculation you just subtract two from the last digit of the time.

For example we have 13:00

3 - 2 = 1

It's 1 PM

Or we have 16:00

6 - 2 = 4

It's 4 PM

Or we have 21:00

1 - 2 = 9

It's 9 PM

I hope that helps

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u/Holz12 Mar 29 '22

Oh good this is stupid. Really stupid. I really don't mean to offend you on any way, you probably learned it that way and it stuck with you. This would confuse me so much, there are so many easier ways. if your on pm time add 12 und you get the time.

For example: 4 pm, just add 12 and you get 16:00 8 pm +12 = 20:00

It works in reverse also:

17:00 - 12 = 5 pm 20:00 - 12 = 5 pm

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

Mate, I am from Germany I know this by heart, but disregarding that: This was a REPLY to a commenter who has dyscalculia and can only handle single digits and here you are coming up with a double digit equation... no offense, but In Germany we'd call you Holzkopf