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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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24-hour-clock being a military thing is kind of a USA-thing anyway, in many other countries it's just normal.
I wish there was a more practical way to have an analog 24-hour-clock, a clockface with 24 numbers is kinda hard to read.
There is, you have two sets of numbers for each hour marking like this:
or like this:
This requires no change to the time mechanism, so you can pretty easily modify the face of any standard analog clock to be like this.
That first one having "24" is making my eye twitch.
Having a 0'o'clock is something that delights me to no end. I'm from the US but moved a bit ago and I get unreasonably excited to see my clocks showing all 0s
Not much of an improvement over the standard design. I already know that the clockhand pointing to 1 means that it's either 1 am or 13 o'clock/1 pm, but it still doesn't tell me unambiguously which one it is.
Well yeah, functionally it is the standard design. In terms of making a readable clock, this is probably the most practical. Anything more would require some major changes to the mechanism.
Well, unless you're hanging out near one of the poles, it's pretty easy to figure out which one it is with minimal effort.
It's vexing from a design standpoint, and TBH my sleep rhythm is bad enough that I do have an issue with it sometimes.
In Brazil, the 24hr clock is standard for most people.
I have one and it isn’t that hard to read. The top is still 12 but the bottom is midnight with 6 and 18 in the 9 and 3 place respectively.
Don't hospitals use 24 hours too?
I think so. I work in EMS and we use 24 hr. All my clocks and devices are set to 24 hr and I am irritated when I can't change them off the 12 hr clock. It's safer, if I tell you a medication was last administered at 10:00 there's room for error, but if I tell you it was given at 2200 there's no confusion.
Not sure if this applies to you, but how does EMS work with time across timezones? Like if a patient is airlifted from one location to another and crosses timezones? Is that another source of error, or is generally things being an hour off by accident not an issue?