Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by mcv on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:25PM (#32977013)

This is incorrect. The US is hardly the only country where people consider Sunday to be the first day of the week. Anyone with some understanding of the history of our weekdays does so, and that historical understanding is not limited to Americans.

It's also not true that the US is the only country to use 12h time; many countries do. Including mine. If you need to write time without ambiguity, you use the 24h format, but in everyday use and in cases where context makes it clear what you mean, people use the 12h format.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by psnehanshu on Sunday September 25, 2022 @06:32PM (#32977061)

Yeah I agree. 12h time is the natural consequence of using analog clocks where one rotation of the hour hand on the dial represents 12 hours. But I guess it won't be hard to represent 24h if the speed of the hour hand is halved, although I have never seen such clocks.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by em-bee on Sunday September 25, 2022 @10:57PM (#32978840)

you can find them in novelty shops

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by psnehanshu on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @06:12AM (#32993454)

Idk what "novelty shop" is.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by em-bee on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @10:29AM (#32995673)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_item

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by midasuni on Monday September 26, 2022 @04:59AM (#32980896)

What country is that? I’ve only really seen 12h time in America and it’s colonies.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by weberer on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:05AM (#32981570)

In Finland its common to use 12h time in conversation. Digital clocks are 24 hours, but many people still use analog clocks, which are always 12 hours.

And for what its worth, the name for Wednesday, keskiviiko, means midweek.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by midasuni on Monday September 26, 2022 @12:50PM (#32985363)

German “mittwoch” for midweek too.

We might say beers at 5, but I haven’t seen “5.00p” rather than 1700 in written form for decades outside of the US

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we ex... by mcv on Monday September 26, 2022 @06:32PM (#32989475)

Netherland. I suspect it's pretty common across continental Europe.

[ Parent | on HN ]