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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I really dislike those clock widgets. I have them on my phone for setting alarms. Much harder than just typing the time in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At least on my android, if I tap the numbers at the top it allows me to just type it in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Thankfully you can, yeah.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

12-hour time idiocy strikes again... Normalize clocks with numbers 0-11, dammit!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is clocks that say 0 instead of 12? The fuck?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's more logical. The reason it's 12 is because the Romans were afraid of zeros. The "12" means either 0 hours or 12 hours after midnight while 1-11 mean 1-11 or 13-23 hours after midnight.

if (pm && numberOnClock != 12) hoursSinceMidnight = numberOnClock+12; 
else /*am or 12pm*/ 
{ 
  if (numberOnClock == 12 /*12am*/) hoursSinceMidnight = 0; 
  else /*1-11 am or 12pm*/ hoursSinceMidnight=numberOnClock; 
}

If a "0" was on top, it would be

if (pm) hoursSinceMidnight=numberOnClock+12; 
else /*am*/ hoursSinceMidnight=numberOnClock; 

TL;DR: Swap the 0 and 12 on the clock face. The inner (AM) ring now has numbers 0-11 while the outer (PM) ring has numbers 12-23. Things now make sense. We should have done this centuries ago instead of manufacturing measuring instruments whose scale starts at 12 rather than 0.