What time format are you more familiar with?

Good day to you too, uniquestar!

Yeah, when your accustomed to something, even with things that we sometimes don't notice that we are already used to how we deal with things around us, its rather tricky to get familiar with something entirely new.

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That is kind'a okay, I guess. When your used to it, you don't have to think it over as much as one would for the first few times. I do wonder how it became called like that, 'military time..'

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Yeah, every now and then, I still get to look up, somehow slightly to the left, thinking what would time be in ordinary format when I get confronted with a military time. I always think, 'that time minus twelve would be..' (^_^")

Is your husband good at math? A math teacher, perhaps? Or onced served in the military?

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Yes he is very good at math and was in the National Guards.

Hmmm (^_^ )

One out of two guesses..

Me too, a tiny moment or a few tiny moments for me to figure out what time it is.. Sometimes, my friends get confused when I say, 'its fifteen hundred already, I have to go..' (^_^") still, trying to get the hang of it..

Binary time? I guess I would have to look it up to know it more.. dots that light up, you say..? Wonder why he uses that instead of the usual clock.. a wrist watch that shows binary time.. would look like a cool accessory, I guess. (^_^ )

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Binary is the code that computers understand. You know how computers understand a series of 1's and 0's. It is that. Most computer type people understand it.
They actually do sell watches like that. I have seen them with red lights and some with blue lights. They do look pretty cool.

I see, so I guess I have to understand binary codes before looking for a watch like that (^_^ )

Indeed..I try the hand of the clock progressing and instead of the number one to twelve again, I try to imagine thirteen up twenty four.. but most often, I just count up to twenty three since twenty four would be zero again for some reason..

It is the same in the morning until it gets to 12:59 then it goes to 13:00 instead of 1:00 p.m. Then is the time until 23:59 that I have to start mentally subtracting 12 hours from the number.

I do not know who figured out the clocks in the first place. They should go decimal like the currency. Divide the whole day into 10 hours. divide these decimal hours into 100 (deci)minutes each. And instead of seconds, divide the minutes into 100 (deci)seconds. When you divide it all down, the (deci)second would be 1/100,000 of a day instead of 1/86,400 of a day so it would be close to the present second.

There is an illogical glitch that goes on with the a.m. and p.m. way of time when it comes to midnight. In military it goes to 00:00 but with am/pm it continues to 12:00 instead of resetting to 00:00 and continues for the next hour with the 12:

I guess at one time when everyone were farmers and nobody had electric lights they were never up at midnight so they did not worry about it.

Time has developed through from sun dials, hour glass or whatever devices that came up to measure it but, throughout every thing, they all followed that sexagecimal system.

*-Sexagesimal (base-sixty) is a numeral system with sixty as the base. It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 2000s BC, was transmitted to the Babylonians, and is still used—in modified form—for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates.

The number 60 has twelve factors, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60, of which 2, 3, and 5 are prime. With so many factors, many fractions of sexagesimal numbers are simple. For example, an hour can be divided evenly into segments of 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 15 minutes, etc. 60 is the smallest number divisible by every number from 1 to 6.-

I think your idea of how time should be counted can be applicable.. though I'm not sure if it could also be applicable with measuring angles or geographic coordinate..

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We also use the twelve hour time commonly here in our country. I just like the twenty four hour better.. see more numbers than twelve...? I don't know what advantages would using either time format would give but, its a matter of choice I guess..

There's something about them that makes me use it whenever possible. In mobile phones, computers, anything that I could set the time into that format, I might as well do so..

Yeah, saying 'fifteen hundred hours before class' doesn't seem alright to hear, especially to those who don't use it often.. (^_^")

I see that you have no particular preference between the two formats then.

Thank you for posting, sophie_dfuss!

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Nice name, I don't have to say 'hello' as yours already has it. (^_^ )

Its confusing to tell others time especially if the time is pass mid-night in your language? Hmmmm~

I see, so there is an advantage with military time as you could easily know when its already pass the afternoon or not yet. (^_^ )

Thanks for posting!

But, you still know military time, just don't use it often or even encounter it anywhere you go..?

Thanks for posting, tuyakiki!

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