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What do you mean if your brain works in digital time. This doesn’t translate for me and I grew up with regular clocks and wrist watches. All time is the same. A clock with both hands facing 12 is and always has been twelve o’clock. Clock face or digital clock. They give the same time. Comparing two devices that give the same information in different ways to language is absurd.
Your comparison could work if the subject being discussed was 12 vs 24 hour time keeping. Then there is a translation between the two.
Analog clocks lend themselves better to thinking in fractions of an hour or day, like this post is talking about, as an hour and a half day are both represented as a circle
Digital clocks lend themselves better to thinking in terms of number of minutes and hours directly. When working numerically, fractions of 60 are generally less intuitive, and fractions of 12 often so as well. Most people who don't work with angles often think of fractions in terms of percent, or powers of two.
"Quarter past" kind of tweaks the brain wrong when a quarter is intuitively 25.
Really? I've always found them very pleasing.
They chose 12 precisely because it's easy to divide!
I wish our numeric system was base 12 instead of base 10!
You're on Lemmy, of course you like fractions of 12. It is a very convenient base, having so many factors, but most people don't think like that
That might be the most obscure stereotype I've ever read. 😆
It’s also precision. I think this is the biggest thing we’ve lost is some expression of precision.
Actually a digital clock with both hands pointing at twelve is not a digital clock.
oh i think this may be a cultural thing, here in europe when we say "digital time" we specifically mean 24-hour time because "AM/PM" isn't used here.
It's the difference between saying "dinner's at seven" and "lunch ends at 13:30"
Ahhh!!! That totally makes sense. I took the comment to be about digital clocks specifically vs analog clocks. Not about the type of time keeping. Then the translation analogy totally makes sense and works! Gotta love learning new things from people. Thanks Swedneck!