As a child I grew up on a 12 hour clock.

18-20 I had to learn 24 hour clock and use it all the time (heh).

Now as an adult I try to stay 24h but I still mentally swap 24h to 12h in my head.

So I look at the clock see 13:00 and think ok it’s 1:00pm.

So far, so good… When on a treadmill/bike watching the timer go up, I sometimes have mild confusion.

I’m doing 15:00 on this machine, ok the timer says 13:00… I have 4 minutes left. I realize my quick math and time recognition frameworks are colliding. The 13:00 gets quick swapped to a 1, and I then I do 5-1… I’ve noticed this on multiple days, even though I know it’s wrong.

Not sure of the right term for this, anyone else have this kind of coding confusion?

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeMEnglish
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    14 days ago

    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%.