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[-] Kit 63 points 3 months ago

Anyone who works an office job should be able to set their own hours. I choose 6:30-2:30. I can still hit up local shops after. My colleague chooses 10-8 and shops before work. There's no reason we can't make this work.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 32 points 3 months ago

For a lot of time, i thought the 12 hour clock was not that bad

Until i saw people excluding the AM/PM. What does 6:30-2:30 mean? Are you working -4 hours? Are you working from 18:30 to 2:30 or from 6:30 to 14:30? Why do people choose this time format?

[-] LaVacaMariposa@mander.xyz 26 points 3 months ago

Even though you're right, context is also important. They're talking about working in an office, so it shouldn't be difficult to understand that they're referring to working 8 hours, from 6:30 AM to 2:30 PM

[-] dkt@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

Do all Europeans choose to purposefully misinterpret information that is actually very easy to understand based on context?

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

The meaning is clear in this context, but not all of them. Especially when instead of a range of hours it is a single one.

Although it is possible to determine they "probably meant this one", why would you waste your time guessing based on context and risk being wrong when you can just use 24h and be precise.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

I think it's worse that someone from programming.dev doesn't understand time.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

I'm confused by this comment.
Do you not understand how to tell time?

[-] thirteene@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

06:30-02:30 (note the 0!) means 6:30 am to 2:30 am the following day. Anything in pm would be +12 hours. 6:30 pm becomes 18:30; 2:30pm is 14:30. Using this format you want 06:30-14:30 which is 8 hours.

This format is important because it actually solves the problem you are trying to explain (am/pm). Regularly I need to give EST database timestamps for a PST server cluster while living in another timezone myself and speaking to someone in India which is :30min difference in time zones and trying to account for daylight savings. Removing am/pm just makes it easier to track what happens in different places without looking at the wrong time window. Time math is messy and stupid, be specific by using 24 hours instead of 12

Edit: I guess no one works in timestamps, keep on being terrible for the rest of us.

Edit 2: if you don't understand how time works, reconsider your opinion. Spreading misinformation is damaging

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Why would anyone care about putting a 0 before the 6 in 6:30. It solves nothing

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

That's how international and military time works. It's a four digit format.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I just subtract 2 after 1300. That's what works quicker in my head.

1300 = 1pm.
1400 = 2pm.
1500 = 3pm.
And so forth.
It's the same thing, but I just ignore the 1.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

Adding 12 to a number isnt that hard

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Neither is subtracting it. It appears we are at an impasse

[-] itslilith 3 points 3 months ago

Guessing if you need to subtract it is, however

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Gee it's 16:00, I wonder if I should subtract 12 to convert the time

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Guessing each time if 12 needs to be added (with usually important consequences if you guess wrong) is.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

If you need to guess to convert, wouldnt you need to guess if its AM or PM?

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yes. You need to guess if it's AM or PM. That's what the comment is about.

If whoever says the time uses 24h or explicitly says AM/PM there's no guessing involved.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Are you ten years old or something? How is telling time this difficult for you?

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

I got confused by the message i was replying to, thinking they were saying that you have to guess to convert between the 2

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Until i saw people excluding the AM/PM. What does 6:30-2:30 mean? Are you working -4 hours? Are you working from 18:30 to 2:30 or from 6:30 to 14:30? Why do people choose this time format?

No, this is what is confusing you. It's like you never had any simple education, or you're completely unaware of your surroundings.

How is it possible to be so confused about clocks?

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I can easily read clocks

I can easily understand time with AM/PM

People writing time without AM/PM is the part i dont understand

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I rest my case, your honor.

[-] Kit 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah my company doesn't care when I come and go as long as I work 40 hours and don't miss meetings. 4 day workweeks are generally frowned upon but you can do it now and then.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Did you reply to the wrong comment?

(Cool though!)

[-] Kit 3 points 3 months ago

I think I just got confused, sorry.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

No worries mate

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 7 points 3 months ago

The company would have to hire more shitty middle managers to micro manage you during a wider amount of hours, we can't have that.

[-] dan@upvote.au 5 points 3 months ago

I'm thankful I can do this. My employer measures performance based on what we actually do, not how long we work for.

I'm usually at work 10 AM to 6:30 PM (which helps avoid peak hour traffic), but I can come in and/or leave earlier or later and it'd be fine. I work from home two days a week, too.

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