Post AW9d9en1D5eDDbR2zQ by The_GNU_Ninja@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #AW9OxOlDa66Sfiqz8S by stux@mstdn.social
2023-05-29T15:01:46Z
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:blobcatscience: How many hours are there in an Earth day?:stux: 24!:blobcatscience: Great! Now let's create a time measurement systems with 12 hours and divide this into AM and PM!:stux: ..... :confused_dog:
(DIR) Post #AW9PFlOw8u3Q6SBm2S by stux@mstdn.social
2023-05-29T15:04:55Z
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@root :blobcatgiggle: Let's go 24 pieces!
(DIR) Post #AW9PWIMDNduiwpnZbM by kingu@mstdn.social
2023-05-29T15:08:10Z
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@stux Guy who invented the clock: there will be 12 numbers on itFriend: so the day will be divided into 12 segments?Inventor: no, 24Friend: so will the day start at 1Inventor: the day will start at the 12, which is at nightFriend: ...Inventor: the 6 means 30
(DIR) Post #AW9PXZdec9nupnZ7Fg by Pjotrovics@mastodon.nl
2023-05-29T15:08:22Z
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@stux During my work in IT there was a saying to solve problems for customers.There are 24 hours in a day, and then you have the night.To motivate the team. š
(DIR) Post #AW9PsBYtKJMMF7AMG8 by ramsey@phpc.social
2023-05-29T15:12:07Z
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@stux Iām actually amazed at how ancient humans were able to accurately tell time and largely arrived at the current divisions of time we have today.
(DIR) Post #AW9PtswxUo056AEYqm by mikevv@c.im
2023-05-29T15:12:31Z
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@stux Swatch invented a fix for this issue with time some time ago, called "Internet time" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
(DIR) Post #AW9PxiswrGCx2eBids by dragnucs@social.touha.me
2023-05-29T15:13:17Z
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@kingu @stux un analogue clocks, we cannot sync the hours indicator with minutes indicator when using 24hours. It gets off. It is possible on 12.
(DIR) Post #AW9R1Zkyq6shqIrVaK by benfrog@mstdn.social
2023-05-29T15:13:14Z
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@ramsey @stux Just don't talk to Oracle about which ancient calendar is correct.
(DIR) Post #AW9R1bU2Q4W9CKx0SG by ramsey@phpc.social
2023-05-29T15:14:01Z
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@benfrog @stux Is this a Gregorian Calendar adoption joke?
(DIR) Post #AW9R1cCLlJxlPlgOWW by benfrog@mstdn.social
2023-05-29T15:14:42Z
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@ramsey @stux A bad one, yes. š
(DIR) Post #AW9R1cpLQL9fMhvXIu by ramsey@phpc.social
2023-05-29T15:16:12Z
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@benfrog @stux Iām laughing on the inside. šI wrote this a long time ago about differences in various programs, based on when the Gregorian Calendar was adopted. https://benramsey.com/blog/2014/02/dates-are-hard/
(DIR) Post #AW9R1dRd7zmPHRq6ym by stux@mstdn.social
2023-05-29T15:24:58Z
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@ramsey @benfrog this is fun :bloblaugh:
(DIR) Post #AW9SCjSNDRD3492hKy by smokku@chrome.pl
2023-05-29T15:38:14Z
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@stux Meeep! Wrong!How many hours are there in the Earth's day?12 And how many hours in the Earth's night?Another 12
(DIR) Post #AW9Yje3aubL9bHWtf6 by seindal@mastodon.social
2023-05-29T16:51:15Z
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@stuxIt goes all the way back to the mesopotamians who used 12 and 60 based numbers.
(DIR) Post #AW9d9en1D5eDDbR2zQ by The_GNU_Ninja@mstdn.social
2023-05-29T17:40:59Z
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@stux 24 factorial š¤Æšø
(DIR) Post #AW9dlypJA5FyMkmQQi by blake@fosstodon.org
2023-05-29T17:47:55Z
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@stux I'm pretty sure 12 hour time comes from sundials, which, you know, only work for 12 hours at at time maximum... 24 hour time is a relatively new thing. AM/PM has been around a lot longer, but the US leads the world in holding on to long-dead things...https://www.britannica.com/topic/24-hour-clock
(DIR) Post #AW9i1Ov0pm0ZRv3als by calculsoberic@mstdn.social
2023-05-29T18:35:30Z
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@stux Yeah, it gets a little confusing, doesn't it?
(DIR) Post #AW9i5BYSSibFA1JOk4 by TheMNWolf@meow.social
2023-05-29T18:36:13Z
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@stux I only work with Julian time. It's 0.125 do you know where your cat is?
(DIR) Post #AW9mGbtVGyGVqwrJZ2 by justafrog@mstdn.social
2023-05-29T19:23:09Z
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@stux 86400 seconds is hard to divvy up in round numbers.Maybe if we redefined the length of seconds? 100 seconds per minute, 100 minutes per hour, 10 hours per day?Would make a lot of math easier.
(DIR) Post #AW9mzgsPax8GKwqPPE by snacktraces@allthingstech.social
2023-05-29T19:31:07Z
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@stuxAnd while at it, we change the time by one hour twice a year, each nation changing different weeks.Oh, if some of us figure out the change is not a good idea, we'll just set the clock +1 hour and never set it back. (Always +1 hour of what the time should be.)And oh wait, some areas will just not do this +/- 1 hour thing at all. And an area or two will be off by 30 mins.(It could be worse folks, you could still be using old and inconvenient unit systems. Like us in the US and Liberia)
(DIR) Post #AW9uvswRawQmENQWNE by MaryPot@masto.ai
2023-05-29T21:00:04Z
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@stux Excellent! Will be cool to see all the people who come 12 hours late to work or to catch a plane somewhere they won't get to! š