but then it would be even weirder, what you should really do is shift forward, so instead of it being 1-12, it’s 0-11, so it would be 0 at the very top, wrap around all the way to eleven, and then bump back to zero, where it would be inline with 24hr time sort of.
The other option is to standardize 24hr time off of the zero, so it actually has the 24 hour period. not 23, plus 0, which is still 24.
Yeah that’s exactly what I meant too, with replacing the 12 with a 0. Then as the clock swept past the top it would be 11:58, 11:59, 0:00, 0:01, etc.
It’s also funny that we’re talking about the “top” of an old analog clock, because with the digital clocks we all use on our devices now using 12 instead of 0 makes even LESS sense!
I believe the military-style time I mentioned is also 0-based 24 hours like you suggested. They leave out the extra punctuation and go from 0000 to 2359 iirc.
But the goofy 12 clock is probably here to stay for a long time just because people are used to it. I live in the US and am a native English speaker, so I’m used to special exceptions and unique measurement units. 😆
And I just noticed: pretty great username + post combo with this one!
but then it would be even weirder, what you should really do is shift forward, so instead of it being 1-12, it’s 0-11, so it would be 0 at the very top, wrap around all the way to eleven, and then bump back to zero, where it would be inline with 24hr time sort of.
The other option is to standardize 24hr time off of the zero, so it actually has the 24 hour period. not 23, plus 0, which is still 24.
Yeah that’s exactly what I meant too, with replacing the 12 with a 0. Then as the clock swept past the top it would be 11:58, 11:59, 0:00, 0:01, etc.
It’s also funny that we’re talking about the “top” of an old analog clock, because with the digital clocks we all use on our devices now using 12 instead of 0 makes even LESS sense!
I believe the military-style time I mentioned is also 0-based 24 hours like you suggested. They leave out the extra punctuation and go from 0000 to 2359 iirc.
But the goofy 12 clock is probably here to stay for a long time just because people are used to it. I live in the US and am a native English speaker, so I’m used to special exceptions and unique measurement units. 😆
And I just noticed: pretty great username + post combo with this one!