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Hi all. When I booted up the scanner today I found this
it would seem that someone was attacking one of my portals at 0:01.... wait zero o’clock?! Is this a bug???
It even shows up under the alert tab.
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Hi all. When I booted up the scanner today I found this
it would seem that someone was attacking one of my portals at 0:01.... wait zero o’clock?! Is this a bug???
It even shows up under the alert tab.
Comments
24h format...
Oops. I thought it was a bug because I assumed that 24 hour time started at 1:00.
I also see reports dated 12/30 - I didn't know there were 30 months.
I assumed that 24 hour time started at 1:00.
Thankfully, no.
24 hour time actually begins at 00:00, and ends at 23:59.
This is one of the reasons for why military personnel sometimes call midnight... spheres.
Or "Zero Hundred Hours"
Informally, "zero dark thirty."
Military time is hard....
Ingress is culture! You can learn distance in the metric scale and hours in hard mode.
The 24 hour format is actually easier than the 12 hour format. I can never remember whether 12:01am is one minute after midnight or one minute after noon.
12h its easier for kids. For them The Day usually start and ends around 8h.
0-dark-30 is any random time during the early hours of the morning - but definitely not midnight, as that wouldn't end with "30".
To be clear, the only people learning metric distances through Ingress, are Yanks. Everyone else learnt it when they were six.
i hardly ever use the metric system. I only use it when playing KSP and even then it’s still confusing.
Metric system should prevail. What can be less confusing than multiplying or dividing by 10 enough times? The world should forget about Imperial miles, feet, whatever else. And 12h time format with Fahrenheit degree should burn in hell too. 😈
I am so sorry but according to some the US is afraid of change when it comes to this stuff
Of course, teaching hundred of millions again would lead to chaos.
The metric system has prevailed, as evidenced by the fact that Ingress (and PoGo) work in kilometers and not miles. The US just can't grasp the concept that every one of their "Freedom Units" is actually based off a metric value. They no longer use their own reference object, and simply convert to metric.
Plus half the population can't even tell you simple exchanges like "How many feet in a mile", or "What's a chain", "How many fluid ounces in a gallon".
Which is larger, the UK fluid ounce or the US one?
Oh, Farenheit was orgjnally a centigrade scale - just different fixed points.
Oh, Fahrenheit was originally a centigrade scale - just different fixed points.
Nah, centigrade is a reference to the 100 graduation difference between freezing and boiling water. Fahrenheit was never a centigrade scale, because the two reference points were 0 (freezing point of a certain mixture of brine) and 96 (the approximate value of a human body's heat), so only 96 graduations, not 100.
These days, it's reference points are... freezing and boiling water, 180 degrees apart. Basically, again, it's been morphed to rely on Metric for it's references.
Nearly: 'centigrade' just means 100 graduations between the fixed points. For Farenheit 0 for the melting point of brine (the coldest he could grt in the lab) and 100 for human blood.
Celcius, on the other hand is a centigrade scale based on the freezing and boiling points of water.
At some point Farenheit was redefined in terms of Celcius.