The U.S. 12h clock is stupid: 12PM + 1h = 1PM
If you don't use a 24h clock at least do it like the Japanese, who also use the 12h clock and have: 0:00 PM + 1h = 1:00 PM
that just moves the weird math, because 11:00 + 1h = 00:00... The fact that clocks are a circle means there is some weird math like this happening somewhere no matter the system.
Not really 11:00 AM +1h becomes 00:00 PM, and vice versa. PM and AM are different prefixes/systems/units. Much simpler to understand IMO. 12:00 AM and 12:00 PM would no longer exist, you just convert them from PM to AM or back when you reach them and set the numbers to 00 again.
The person who made the clock copied it from a sundial. You can’t say it’s not logical because that’s how physics works.
Aand that's Numberwang!
This joke has lived in my head quietly for at least a decade.
86,400 is not a perfect cube (or any other power) so unless you change the number of seconds in a day you’re not getting a way to perfectly represent 3 different sized time measurements in the same circle without something like 6=30m/30s
We could just change time… again… to make seconds slightly longer and have there be 85,184 seconds in a day. And then 44 seconds in a minute and 44 minutes in an hour and 44 hours in a day…. But 44 is a lot of numbers to put around a clock just because you’re too lazy to multiply by 2 or 5, shit 2nd graders can do so…. Nah.
So ancient Mesopotamians used to count on their hands slightly different. They wouldn't count their thumbs, instead they would count each knuckle with their thumb so, 3 knuckles per finger and 4 fingers each hand
fun fact during the si process there was also a proposal to make a minute 100 seconds and an hour 100 minute and a day 10 hours (and adjust the second length so that it still syncs up with the sun ofc) but it never got implemented, probably because auf big clock-manufecturing puts on alu hat
I have come to conclude that probably, a terrible amount of these inconsistencies is to make it artificially hard, to "keep out the lower classes" from thinking, or sth. Similar to how the white population in the US made living in suburbs artificially difficult (car dependency, HOAs, ...) to keep the "poor" (a.k.a. black) people out. it's thinly veiled racism.
Or maybe it's just a way to overlay multiple levels of information over the same circle.
There are watches that are called "slow watch" which has a single hand and a dial that goes from 0 to 24. They kinda make more sense than regular watches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QVPUIRGthI : reminded me of this, my Dad used to love this!
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