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I don't know why he has such trouble. You really should only need 1 bit to determine whether or not it's afternoon. Just look at the "afternoon" bit light. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Doesn't that turn on at 10:00
It's afternoon, time to call it a day!
Coincidentally enough, "noon" is etymologically related to "nine", so 10 is indeed afternoon in a very literal sense.
(Just ignore the fact that it's originally meant to be "the ninth hour after sunrise", so ca. 3pm)
You only need four bits to represent 12 (actually 16), add 1 extra bit to double that for the am/pm bit. Any bit can represent anything you like if you encode it as such. ๐
Sure but if you're on Binary time surely you've ditched the stupid AM/PM thing and use 24 hour time
It does sound counterintuitive, doesn't it. It's actually the opposite of what you'd expect, at least in my case.
When I wrote my own binary clock I first tried using one 5-bit word to visually represent 0โ23, and another 6-bit word to represent 0โ59. But I found it hard to quickly read at a glance. Especially the minutes.
I found the 4-bit representation of 1โ12 simpler to read at a glance, and then use the 5th bit to represent am/pm. In fact, I could skip the am/pm bit completely, because who tf doesn't know whether it's before or after noon when looking at a 12h clock, unless you're in complete isolation from the outside.
Then, obviously 6 bits for the minutes is even harder to glance, and more noise, so I made that into a 2-bit thing where the most significant bit is whether or not we are past the half hour, and the least significant bit represents whether or not we are past the 15 or 45-minute mark, which tells me which quarter of the hour we are in. It served me enough granularity to be on time for meetings etc. ๐