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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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