"I'll pick you up at 18 o'clock"
"the time is 1701594853"
"16:20 blaze it"
statements made by the utterly deranged
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flabberghaster wrote
I use 24 hour time on all my devices but I only say stuff out loud like "I get off at 17:30" when I'm trying to annoy the person I'm telling that to. Normally I just translate it in my head.
hollyhoppet wrote
time formats were invented by big calendar to sell more clocks
winter wrote
true but ive never heard anyone unironically say 24 hour times in speech even here in england
personally i'm a big fan of yyyy-mm-dd and 24 hour and 12 hour and unix timestamp. they all have their place and purpose
emma OP wrote
they all have their place and purpose
in the case of unix timestamps, i seem to disagree with a lot of people what those are. i think using them in places where you expect humans to look is a bad use of them.
winter wrote
yeah!!
i think tbh this applies to even stuff like text-based protocols (yes json apis you count too) since the point of those is generally to be somewhat human readable? and unix timestamps are not that. and iso 8601 exists and is readable and sensible
emma OP wrote
yes json apis you count too
*whispers into mic* especially json apis
nitori wrote
Counterpoint: 13:12