I can't believe this is the first I'm hearing of 24-hour analogue clocks! That's so cool. But yeah, I see your point about it now allowing for very much precision at a glance.

You could get a jump hour watch, meaning the hour isn't a slowly moving hand but instead jumps from 6 to 7 with a jump, avoiding potential mixing up of hours, it would make it easier to read those 24h

Like this watch

Edit: The original watch linked is a weird one, it's not a jump hour watch but instead it has a jumping dial to turn it from a 12h to a 24h, very neat! I can't seem to find a 24h jump hour watch apart from this 30k breguet lol

This is what the minute and second hands are for, though

"Precluded" means "prevented" or to "make impossible" ❤️

Sundials also didn't work very well at midnight for some reason, what's ya point?

It's all the Babylonians fault

Yup, that's why we still don't have any clocks to this day.

Well… This post sent me down a rabbit hole -> Unequal Hours if anyone else is curious.

First thing I change on every electronic device I buy.

I don't want to believe that time goes on for that long.

I'd rather a 6 hour clock.

I'd prefer base 10 time than base 12. Until then I'll just keep with am pm

You mean like metric time?

Metric system should be replaced with something base12 thh

It only solves a small part of the issue at the cost of less convenience and consistency. Propose a “metric” time that solves more of this issue problem and I’m all for it

We should all also use GMT and forget about time zones.

Surely you mean common refresh rates like 23.976Hz (NTSC), 25hz (PAL & ATSC), 50hz (PAL & ATSC), 59.95hz (NTSC), 100hz (PAL+) and 144hz, right? /s

60 in particular is a superior highly composite number, 12 divisors compared to a paltry 8 for 24.

Everybody loves composite numbers, but I'm missing the point in which this is advantage in the context of time. The only situation I know of where time needs to be divided is in paid work, and in this case it's always converted to base 10 money.

Fixed url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number

This all originated from the Ancient Sumerians btw. They passed it down to Babylonians.

Edit: A bit of history from what I learned from listening to Fall of Civilizations in the shower.

The Ancient Sumerians invented this sexagesimal system because if you look at your hand, you notice 12 knuckles (this is obviously excluding your thumb, as that is used for counting each knuckle), and with your other hand you will raise a single finger for every time you finish counting past 12 knuckles on your left hand. So raising your thumb is 12, thumb and index is 24, and so on, until you reach 60.

It's called a "highly composite number!" I read up on a lot of this stuff while learning about numerology and other esoteric spiritual traditions!

I never confirmed this, but I noticed that in parts of West Africa, people wouldn't say "afternoon" until after 1:00pm. Since greetings were important, I started noticing it more and more when peoe would say "good morning" during lunch at 12:30pm. As if the 12 noon hour is still part of the time segment.

Nah just use Unix time

Most of that time is irrelevant to me. Let’s just start it in 1970. And I need more precision, so can we do milliseconds instead of seconds?

This would go great with my idea of everyone having a GUID instead of a name.

Maybe where you're sitting. But my frame of reference has had slightly different time dilation than yours.

Easy, use the metric time.

9:30 PM would just become Hour 89.58333333/100 of the day 😉

At least they are all divisible by 6.

Ugh I can hear it now

In our relentless pursuit of innovation, we are proud to announce the switch from the outdated 24-hour clock to Metric Time™.

Effective immediately, your standard 8-hour workday will now be... 8 metric hours.

That’s 80% of the entire day. Because nothing says “work-life balance” like leaving 2 hours for life.

Embrace the future. You’re already late.

Holy shit, that actually looks so neat and organized, I want it 😭

yeah I thought so too, can't find it though. Thought it was a Nate Bargatze joke like he does with Washington on SNL (link1/link2)