I just found it's even worse, they divide a day into four 6-hour periods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-hour_clock So there are not three, but four three o'clocks in a day.
The dude in the Cartoon only knew of two 3 o'clocks from the 12 hour system. Then he was informed of another at 9pm thus he was exasperated why there suddenly seemed to be 3!. Crazy 6 hour clock. Different strokes for different folks. Great comics here thanks Malachi.
WHAT? Why are there TWO three o'clocks?!
ReplyDelete24 hours in the day, and we have enough numbers to assign a unique one to each of them.
So do the thai divide a 24 hour day into 1 to 12 AM, 1 to 6 PM, 1 to 6 night? Crazy.
ReplyDeleteI just found it's even worse, they divide a day into four 6-hour periods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-hour_clock
DeleteSo there are not three, but four three o'clocks in a day.
Here in Germany its even worse, we divide the day into 24 one-hour periods!
Deleteand then someone comes with "viertel drei" and people arrive at six different times (2:15, 2:45, 3:15, 14:15, 14:45, 15:15).
DeleteThank goodness, four equal periods makes far more sense than only 3 3 o'clocks.
ReplyDeleteThe dude in the Cartoon only knew of two 3 o'clocks from the 12 hour system. Then he was informed of another at 9pm thus he was exasperated why there suddenly seemed to be 3!. Crazy 6 hour clock. Different strokes for different folks. Great comics here thanks Malachi.
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