I get the joke, but the sundials of ancient civilisations precluded clocks.

It is wild how people refuse to use the 24 hour clock. It is so logical and easy. kind of like the metric system…..

24 hour analogue clocks exist. I have a 24 hour watch which only revolves once per 24 hours. It's a disadvantage though.

The reason why clocks and watches display 12 hours at a time is so that they have space to show finer resolution of time. If you try to cram 24 hours onto a clock, it's not easy to tell if it's 12:20 or 12:30 at a quick glance.

Most people are not too stupid to be aware of if they are in the first 12 hours or second 12 hours of a day, so they benefit from a watch with 12 hour timescale and finer resolution so that they can more easily see exactly what time it is.

And for all the dummies posting about 12h vs 24h clocks. In the sense of saying that it's 1pm vs 13:00. That's not what this meme is even describing. This is about the physical layout of a clock or watch face.

The numbers on the clock actually make a lot of sense.

12, 24 and 60 are highly composite numbers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number).

Imagine using numbers in a world where most people have no real understanding of fractions.

That is also the reason why you see the same or similar numbers as common screen refresh rates. 24, 48, 60, 120 and 240.

The 12 hour clockface design is that way because it is a similar design to that of a sundial, so people did not need to learn a new way to read the time. This also meant that for readibility reasons it was beneficial to only have 12 numbers.

24 hours cause Egyptians split their sun dials and star decans into 12 parts each (probably cause 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6) which the greeks later turned into equal length hours (before the length would change over the year)

60 minutes due to Babylonian base-60 math

12 hour format is just tradition at this point, but derived from the sun dials which only worked at day, so half the time, and the star decans which only worked at night, so the other half.

pretty much every country except the US uses the 24h format on digitial clocks now

also the dude in the meme was kinda right: the day will be divided into 12 segments. and the night will too. at least originally

The clock makes so much more sense when you rewrite the 12 as a 0

Keep it simple and just measure in terms of seconds since the Big Bang. The current time is 435,884,579,968,052,736 seconds, easy peasy

Let's just switch to metric time. https://metric-time.com/

Alright, I'm calling a 4.1666666666666666666666666666 metric hour meeting to discuss this!

The meeting might run to a full 5 metric hours.

Only noobs start counting at 1. Midnight = 24:00 = 00:00

Its possible to create a new time format/ system, the problem is how to standardise it everywhere

maybe this is because i grew up in a house that had a clock with hands but no numbers, but wth do you mean "the 6 means 30".

analogue clocks consists of two progress bars. the numbers are just for convenience.

Babylonians: I see this as a complete win.

Clocks are based on sundials. The little hand roughly follows where a shadow would be. The rest is just what people agreed on made the most sense.

Haven’t seen this one this week. Thanks