Having a 0’o’clock is something that delights me to no end. I’m from the US but moved a bit ago and I get unreasonably excited to see my clocks showing all 0s
Not much of an improvement over the standard design. I already know that the clockhand pointing to 1 means that it’s either 1 am or 13 o’clock/1 pm, but it still doesn’t tell me unambiguously which one it is.
Well yeah, functionally it is the standard design. In terms of making a readable clock, this is probably the most practical. Anything more would require some major changes to the mechanism.
I think so. I work in EMS and we use 24 hr. All my clocks and devices are set to 24 hr and I am irritated when I can’t change them off the 12 hr clock. It’s safer, if I tell you a medication was last administered at 10:00 there’s room for error, but if I tell you it was given at 2200 there’s no confusion.
Not sure if this applies to you, but how does EMS work with time across timezones? Like if a patient is airlifted from one location to another and crosses timezones? Is that another source of error, or is generally things being an hour off by accident not an issue?
I’ve never dealt with that, but I worked night shift for a long time and so I’ve worked when daylight savings time happened and stopped happening and run calls during that time shift. Usually you just note it when making report at the hospital and then when you are writing the chart you manually adjust the time so the computer is happy and lets you close your chart (so you keep things linear, even if it then means your documented times aren’t actually accurate as to when things happen) and write a note in your chart that the call occurred during the time shift of daylight savings times and that anything that is time stamped after XXXX actually occurred at XXXX.
24-hour-clock being a military thing is kind of a USA-thing anyway, in many other countries it’s just normal.
I wish there was a more practical way to have an analog 24-hour-clock, a clockface with 24 numbers is kinda hard to read.
There is, you have two sets of numbers for each hour marking like this:
or like this:
This requires no change to the time mechanism, so you can pretty easily modify the face of any standard analog clock to be like this.
That first one having “24” is making my eye twitch.
Having a 0’o’clock is something that delights me to no end. I’m from the US but moved a bit ago and I get unreasonably excited to see my clocks showing all 0s
Not much of an improvement over the standard design. I already know that the clockhand pointing to 1 means that it’s either 1 am or 13 o’clock/1 pm, but it still doesn’t tell me unambiguously which one it is.
Well yeah, functionally it is the standard design. In terms of making a readable clock, this is probably the most practical. Anything more would require some major changes to the mechanism.
In Brazil, the 24hr clock is standard for most people.
I have one and it isn’t that hard to read. The top is still 12 but the bottom is midnight with 6 and 18 in the 9 and 3 place respectively.
All those Roman numerals would confuse the fudge out of them.
Don’t hospitals use 24 hours too?
I think so. I work in EMS and we use 24 hr. All my clocks and devices are set to 24 hr and I am irritated when I can’t change them off the 12 hr clock. It’s safer, if I tell you a medication was last administered at 10:00 there’s room for error, but if I tell you it was given at 2200 there’s no confusion.
Not sure if this applies to you, but how does EMS work with time across timezones? Like if a patient is airlifted from one location to another and crosses timezones? Is that another source of error, or is generally things being an hour off by accident not an issue?
I’ve never dealt with that, but I worked night shift for a long time and so I’ve worked when daylight savings time happened and stopped happening and run calls during that time shift. Usually you just note it when making report at the hospital and then when you are writing the chart you manually adjust the time so the computer is happy and lets you close your chart (so you keep things linear, even if it then means your documented times aren’t actually accurate as to when things happen) and write a note in your chart that the call occurred during the time shift of daylight savings times and that anything that is time stamped after XXXX actually occurred at XXXX.