Dyscalculia would be having trouble with numbers and/or math. Dunno if there's a term for time specific issues.
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No, but one can be made since it's Latin. Dyschronosia. There, solved OP's issue.
Sometimes I look at my watch or clocks in 24hr time and will say it's" 9pm" or it's "6pm" when really it's 1900 and 1600.
I think it's related to the inconsistent time format that we have to balance. Most people don't use 24hr so I can't just say, it's 1900 or 1600, and my brain does some quick math shortcuts, which blurts out the last number of the hours spot.
Gonna be a confusing time for my son when he starts to learn how to tell time.
Same, here in switzerland we dont say lets meet for dinner at 18:00 but lets meet for dinner at 6. This can become confusing and i sometimes read 17:00 as 7 o‘clock
That moment when I can say I was born in the 1600's.
I also do that. I've missed appointments because of it even. I've learned to just repeat in 24 hour format and get a confirmation to make sure I didn't fuck it up (helps that I live in a country where 24 hour is the default in everything other than speech, where it's mixed, so there's 0 chance the other person will have trouble with 24 hour time).
I get confused even just using one of those clocks. It's why I use a percentage clock and made use of it official in all the places I can. A percentage clock is based on the number representing how much of the day has past. Currently the time is 53.58%.
Is it based on midnight, or normal waking time?
0% is midnight, 50% is noon. Currently the time is 55.83%.
Oh that's a great idea! I've never heard of it before.
Are there physical clocks that represent this?
I know they exist but haven't found any in person.
My watch has been in 24h time since I had to log in/out on paper in 24h time. My computer is on 24h time too. I also do the conversion in my head, but in the evening I'll sometimes get confused.
If I have a timer set on a clock I often look at for time, if the time is "close" that will confuse me, but that has nothing to do with dyslexia, For me that would be more of reading 13:00 left as 90s, and getting confused when its not going off after 2 min.