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Great argument for using the 24h clock ;-)
by NeoTar 4y ago
Great argument for using the 24h clock ;-)
- capitainenemo 4y agoEver seen the 24h analog clock? :) https://m8y.org/images/24.svg https://m8y.org/images/24.svg
- Izkata 4y agoI have the widget on my phone, it uses local sunrise/sunset to adjust the nighttime shaded area: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.staticfree.android.twentyfourhour https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.staticfre...
- lucumo 4y agoI've been staying at that click for a solid ten minutes, but I can't figure out why minutes and seconds start on top, but hours on the bottom. Any idea why that particular choice was made?
- K2L8M11N2 4y agoFrom the sibling comment's link: "Noon is at the top, so that the hour hand mimics the path of the sun."
- goblinux 4y agothe 24 hour clocks I've seen usually are set up like this so daytime is the top half and night time the bottom - as though the tip of the hour hand was the sun
- jonpurdy 4y agoAdding additional info to my sibling comments. Since the bottom is designed to show night, it would be cool to grab a geolocation and draw the bottom based on sunrise/sunset times.
- nadavr 4y agoRelated, I made a little toy[0] that lets you explore what analog clocks would like with an arbitrary number of hours in the day (since 12/24 is of course arbitrary too). [0]: https://nadavrecca.com/eleventhour https://nadavrecca.com/eleventhour
- _carbyau_ 4y ago12 may be an arbitrary number but with all it's numeric factors it sure is a convenient one!
- adolph 4y agoThis is very nice as it addresses the zero-index nature of time by going 0-23 instead of 1-24. Time would be much more comprehensible if all clock were marked that way.
- capitainenemo 4y agoHm, I think most countries that use 24h time systems use 00:00:00 to 23:59:59
- adolph 4y agoOk, it is interesting that the top of 12h clocks in those countries is often a 12 instead of a zero [0]. Maybe the tension of a cardinal zero in an ordinal world (i.e. 1900 is the 20th century) lead the Swiss Railway to de-number the 12h clock [1]. 0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gare_de_Lyon_xCRW_1311.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gare_de_Lyon_xCRW_13... 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_railway_clock