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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The clocks that use Roman numerals mix in letters.

[–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

German has a word for it: historisch gewachsen

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