(October 25, 2014 at 4:30 pm)Losty Wrote:

(October 25, 2014 at 4:22 pm)Chas Wrote: Time is not location, it's distance. At midnight we start a new day and we are 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds into it - 00:00:00. Ta-dah!

It appears obvious to me that you did not read the OP. I'm not completely stupid. I already know this. I get it. I don't need it to be explained to me. My whole point was that in my own mind it makes more sense to see time as an exact location instead of a distance. My point is that when things make sense they hurt my brain and when I try to make sense of them I always end up with something that everyone else says is is too complicated. My question wasn't oh mighty intellectuals at AF please explain to me how time works. I get it honestly. I just wanted to know if I'm crazy. That's all. And if I am, are there other crazy people who are also crazy in the same way that I am?

I did read it, and you apparently do need it explained.

This seems the same as those who aren't comfortable with metric - it isn't what they learned when they were very young.

(October 25, 2014 at 6:07 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I think you're crazy for not seeing how military time works.

Having the number 1 to represent the events happening before the 1st hour the day begins makes no sense. It's all just self explanatory really.

I'm from England where we do use military time a lot, it's used on a lot of watches and in my workplace for example, but I don't blame you for not wanting to use it because I rarely use it.
It's not like I go round saying "It's 15.00" It's much easier just to say "It's 3 O clock".
And if anyone did tell me the time in military time I would just think "Tell me the proper time and stop tryin to be complicated"

And I admit that when I was very young and they began teaching is military time as opposed to AM, PM which I already knew I did think "What the fuck is this shit, I spent ages learning time now I have to learn this over complicated way of doing it aswell?"

Facepalm I know how it works. I get it. Oh my god. I'm not oblivious to how time works. I just...I just don't like it. The whole concept is so complicated and frustrating. It's not that I don't understand. I just don't understand why. Ya know?

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(October 25, 2014 at 6:20 pm)Chas Wrote:

(October 25, 2014 at 4:30 pm)Losty Wrote: It appears obvious to me that you did not read the OP. I'm not completely stupid. I already know this. I get it. I don't need it to be explained to me. My whole point was that in my own mind it makes more sense to see time as an exact location instead of a distance. My point is that when things make sense they hurt my brain and when I try to make sense of them I always end up with something that everyone else says is is too complicated. My question wasn't oh mighty intellectuals at AF please explain to me how time works. I get it honestly. I just wanted to know if I'm crazy. That's all. And if I am, are there other crazy people who are also crazy in the same way that I am?

I did read it, and you apparently do need it explained.

This seems the same as those who aren't comfortable with metric - it isn't what they learned when they were very young.

Facepalm to this too. I don't need it explained. I am not stupid. I'm perfectly capable of using and understanding military time. Your point would make sense, if my imaging system was something I had learned earlier that military time, but it's not. It's just a made up system in my mind that works and makes more sense to me.

Well my guess is that people use it to make it un arguably clear of what time it is they're talking about.

Like in a situation where someone's talking quickly on a radio to someone else PM might have the slight chance of being mistaken for AM and it would just be more clear to say thirteen hundren hours, instead of 1pm.

Little things like this probably make a big difference in life or death situations where communication has to be clear.

Your 23-0 vs 24 hours part of the conversation was hilarious.

When you do a subtraction (B-A), your asking how many different values do I need to pass to get to B if I'm starting from A. However, when you ask how many different possible values there are, it is B-A+1. The plus one comes in because you have to include the value you are on.

(October 26, 2014 at 2:04 am)Surgenator Wrote: Your 23-0 vs 24 hours part of the conversation was hilarious.

When you do a subtraction (B-A), your asking how many different values do I need to pass to get to B if I'm starting from A. However, when you ask how many different possible values there are, it is B-A+1. The plus one comes in because you have to include the value you are on.

You just went full algebra. Never go full algebra

(October 26, 2014 at 2:11 am)Losty Wrote:

(October 26, 2014 at 2:04 am)Surgenator Wrote: Your 23-0 vs 24 hours part of the conversation was hilarious.

When you do a subtraction (B-A), your asking how many different values do I need to pass to get to B if I'm starting from A. However, when you ask how many different possible values there are, it is B-A+1. The plus one comes in because you have to include the value you are on.

You just went full algebra. Never go full algebra

What is wrong with algebra? It is a very concise language.

How about a monkey bars example. Lets say the distance between the first monkey bar to the last monkey bar is 5 meters. The distance between each monkey bar is half a meter. So you would think that there are a total of 5/0.5=10 monkey bars, but when you count them, you get 11. WTF? Well, the distance between the first and last bar tells you how many monkey bars you have to swing on to get to the last one. This ignores the monkey bar you're starting, the 11th monkey bar. So when you're counting, you include the monkey bar you were originally hanging on.

(October 26, 2014 at 2:22 am)Surgenator Wrote:

(October 26, 2014 at 2:11 am)Losty Wrote: You just went full algebra. Never go full algebra

What is wrong with algebra? It is a very concise language.

How about a monkey bars example. Lets say the distance between the first monkey bar to the last monkey bar is 5 meters. The distance between each monkey bar is half a meter. So you would think that there are a total of 5/0.5=10 monkey bars, but when you count them, you get 11. WTF? Well, the distance between the first and last bar tells you how many monkey bars you have to swing on to get to the last one. This ignores the monkey bar you're starting, the 11th monkey bar. So when you're counting, you include the monkey bar you were originally hanging on.

Hmm...seems like it makes more sense to count the first bar but not the last one. Not the last one because you're already done then.

(October 26, 2014 at 2:25 am)Losty Wrote: Hmm...seems like it makes more sense to count the first bar but not the last one. Not the last one because you're already done then.

Your still comparing the distance between the bars vs the total number of bars.

(October 26, 2014 at 2:39 am)Surgenator Wrote:

(October 26, 2014 at 2:25 am)Losty Wrote: Hmm...seems like it makes more sense to count the first bar but not the last one. Not the last one because you're already done then.

Your still comparing the distance between the bars vs the total number of bars.

I just want to live in a world that makes sense to me *runs away weeping*

You're insane, pure and simple.