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German has a word for it: historisch gewachsen

https://youtu.be/0QVPUIRGthI

This is basically a standup routine

I say we divide the day into 100 sections. No reason really I just think it’d be cool to party until 100 o’clock.

Days start at 0h, not 12h

It can't start at 12 hours if there are 24 segments.

And keep your letters out of it too.

Sundials.

Now if you want to get really pissed, the magnetic North Pole is actually the South Pole of the Earth’s magnetic field. We call it the North Pole because the north side of a magnet points to it.

This sounds like the "Jason, Jason, Jason" YouTube guy's conversations.

In Ethiopia they still use the tradition time where the day starts at the 1:00 which is our 6am. Then 12:00 is our 6PM, and it starts over. So they have 2 cycles of 12 hours, one for daytime, and one for night time. And it felt somewhat more intuitively in conversation too.

The clocks that use Roman numerals mix in letters.

I only recently learned the etymology of the word: "second"

Its name comes from being the "second" division of the hour, with the minute being the first.

Don't talk shit about duodecimal 😠

At least our hours are the same length regardless of latitude now, so let's be grateful for that.