Why isn't 24 hourtracks the norm for watches?!
I saw some video a little while ago where a Youtuber (american) said something like using 24 hours on a digital watch was weird, but it was normal to do it in Europe...
This got me thinking that the 12hr format don't make any sense. Every other unit on the watch is counted in whole units while a lap of the hour hand on a normal analog watch is a HALF day!!
We got a word for a day/night (24hrs) in Norway: "døgn". Do english speakers even have a word for this unit?! I mean, don't get me started on english and american units of measurements 😂
I think a "normal" watch dial is intuitive and makes sense only because this is what we have been looking at our whole lifes, but really...? It's not like it's devided in nighttime and daytime even 🙄
The more I think about it, the stupider it seems. What am I missing?!?
With 12 hour, you only need learn to recognize half as many positions and the increments are twice as big.
And get out of here with that metric time stuff.
With 12 hour, you only need learn to recognize half as many positions and the increments are twice as big.
And get out of here with that metric time stuff.
Decimal time....
With 12 hour, you only need learn to recognize half as many positions and the increments are twice as big.
And get out of here with that metric time stuff.
Counting to to 24 is kindergarten stuff in this part of the world 🤔 So I don't buy it. It's not like it's geography 🤭
Counting to to 24 is kindergarten stuff in this part of the world 🤔 So I don't buy it. It's not like it's geography 🤭
Counting and positional recognizance are not the same thing. Of course this is all moot unless one is a space cadet that can't tell time within twelve hours without assistance.
Since the entire system of dividing time into measurable increments is arbitrary by nature, I guess it never struck me as singularly odd. Why 12 hours, 60 minutes, and 60 seconds?🤣
Since the entire system of dividing time into measurable increments is arbitrary by nature, I guess it never struck me as singularly odd. Why 12 hours, 60 minutes, and 60 seconds?🤣
That's not quite correct. I would be like having 60 minutes, and 60 second counted in 30 mins and 30 secs while the units still were 60. That is what we are doing with the 24hrs unit, so strange...
Since the entire system of dividing time into measurable increments is arbitrary by nature, I guess it never struck me as singularly odd. Why 12 hours, 60 minutes, and 60 seconds?🤣
The 60 minutes and 60 seconds come from ancient Babylonian math which was a sexagesimal system, so every was a power of 60s (compared to the power of 10s of the decimal system), and the 24 hours per day comes from ancient Greek astronomy. The system is totally arbitrary but they were based on how things could be measured consistently in ancient times.
No problem with the 60-system! Nor 24 hours, but most watch doesn't measure 24hrs but 12....
Talking to an American about the metric system, you may as well be speaking Greek, no combrenday 🤣
Talking to an American about the metric system, you may as well be speaking Greek, no combrenday 🤣
American guys seem normal until you start speaking measurements. Then it sounds like you are about to put on a wig and duel to the death or some other ol' timey shit 🤣 I'll welcome you into the future if you dare.
American guys seem normal until you start speaking measurements. Then it sounds like you are about to put on a wig and duel to the death or some other ol' timey shit 🤣 I'll welcome you into the future if you dare.
Living in Australia everything is metric so I get lost when people start talking in imperial measurements and have to reach for my phone or just smile and nod my head in agreement🤣
Or duel them ⚔️?
I believe that if I could find a well made, reasonably priced, automatic, 24hour world time watch, it would be my FINAL purchase. Everything else would be obsolete!
I believe that if I could find a well made, reasonably priced, automatic, 24hour world time watch, it would be my FINAL purchase. Everything else would be obsolete!
There are some cool Swiss options ☺️ Some micros, but I think Breitling got one. And the russian brands makes several. Burt who want's russian nowadays....
There are some cool Swiss options ☺️ Some micros, but I think Breitling got one. And the russian brands makes several. Burt who want's russian nowadays....
Thank you. I'll check them out. Gratzi
You can’t have “high noon” when 12 is at the bottom.
You can’t have “high noon” when 12 is at the bottom.
There is only room for one sheriff in this town?🤠
I use 24 hours on all of my digital watches, that includes smartphone and windows 11 OS. In a way the question has its merits. The analog watches should have 24 hours as a standard.