Lesser used standard works better than more popular standard

>Lesser used standard works better than more popular standard
Why is this so common? Who the fuck thought 12-hour clocks were a good idea?

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It made more sense when there were no digital clocks and like many retarded things stuck around because "it was always that way"

compare with miles, inches, 12 months in year, daylight savings, physical money, etc etc

*mericans

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Anyone used to mechanical clocks?

>Why is this so common? Who the fuck thought 12-hour clocks were a good idea?

12 hour clocks are because clocks used to be mechanical with round faces.

but you knew that, right?

Why not just double the number of hours on them?

I wake up to this beauty.

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Alas, mine fell apart in 1992.
It's a shame, I liked that clock.

>Why not just double the number of hours on them?

too hard to see and too complicated to engineer.

>I wake up to this beauty.

is that the clock from Groundhog Day?

You can get clocks like that if you wish.

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what is the problem here? virtually every alarm clock has 12/24 hour modes. your autism flaring up and you just had to make a pointless thread for this?

Same mechanism, different model. The Panasonic RC-6025, which I also happen to have.

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24 hour time is more common outside of Canada and the US.

They also make them with 13 through 23 being listed inside 00 through 12 rather than adjacent to them. Much easier to read. Our school clocks were like this.

That is fancy. Have a ward room clock out of a minesweeper.

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what's wrong with 12 months a year?

I literally own these two. One for the bedroom and the other in the kitchen. Only ever listen to my local news broadcasts.

Beyond comfy

12-hour time makes sense in civilian operation when time does not matter enough
24-hour time makes sense in military and industrial manufacturing where precise time matter

60 minutes divides evenly by 12. It does not divide evenly by 24.

In medicine everything is military time and metric, both are superior to their contemporaries.