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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 13:53:30 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   gah why does am/pm exist

   i keep using weird operations like "addition" on times given me in this manner and end up with, like, 16am

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 14:01:13 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • estelle

     @estelle oh yeah, the broadcasting industry in japan seems to use this convention a lot

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 14:01:15 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     that being said, given when i actually have breakfast usually, 16am might be just the perfect way to describe it

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     estelle (estelle@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 14:01:15 JST estelle

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     @whitequark my favorite of these was on niconico, promoted stream events, with graphic banners, advertising their start times at 25:30 on friday

     modulo, sometimes optional

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     dram🎀 (dramforever@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 14:51:32 JST dram🎀

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     @whitequark japan has trains running at 27:00 and clubs closing at 25 o'clock, and i think this overflow time thing is a great system for those of us running a 24h period circadian rhythm but very out of phase with the sun

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     Sophie of Ratsnake Games (ratsnakegames@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 14:59:52 JST Sophie of Ratsnake Games

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     @whitequark wait til you hear of public transport agencies using times beyond 24:00

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 18:42:21 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Sophie of Ratsnake Games

     @ratsnakegames no that is very fine and cool

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     multioculate (multioculate@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 03:57:31 JST multioculate

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     @whitequark the next big revolution in user interface will be recognizing timestamps are actually more akin to an embedded image and storing them internally as a Unix time, a timebase reference, and a humanized display type