2026-01-19 17:44 UTC
@vonxylofon but when I wear a watch (which is every day), and my train leaves at 18h, I don’t want to have to do math while looking at my watch to see if I’m going to be on time or not.
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@BenCotterill@mastodon.social 2026-01-19 18:21
@zed @vonxylofon “Have to do the math”?! HAHA! Oh, sorry, you say math as singular not maths as plural. I apologise for your education system. I’ll speak slowly from now on.
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@vonxylofon@witter.cz 2026-01-19 20:03
@zed I can assure you we all learnt to do that like muscle memory by the time we turned nine.
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@Soldusty@beige.party 2026-01-20 08:45
@zed @vonxylofon Math? 18:00 is 6PM. I don't know anyone who can't auto subtract 12 from a number over 12. 14:00 = 2pm. 23:35 = 11:35pm 🤷. Then most people in the UK / Europe have probably been doing this since the 1980s (didgital watches became cheap enough for most people to have one).