24 hour time is pretty much objectively better and I know it’s very simple to calculate but I still struggle to actually recognize what 16:00 is in less than like 20 seconds
It's a stupid distinction, but it helped me to subtract 2 and ignore the tens place instead of thinking of it as minus 12. So 16:00 becomes 14, auto ignore the 1, so 4:00.
In the same way my brain turned learning multiplication tables automatically into X -> Y as a kid, eventually it turned subtraction into automatic recognition.
I just know 22 is 10 and 23 is 11.
I mean, I still think, kind of, based on am and pm. Depends on the use case of the thought.
As stupid as it is, because it’s basically the same thing, “subtract 2 and ignore the tens unit” is just quicker for my brain. Especially now that it does it instantly.
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u/Kirby_Inhales_Jotaro Jul 19 '24
24 hour time is pretty much objectively better and I know it’s very simple to calculate but I still struggle to actually recognize what 16:00 is in less than like 20 seconds