The Material Design team has an interesting blog post into what it calls the “24-hour Clock Design Challenge” that chronicles Google’s work creating a time picker for those that use a 24-hour format ...

If you’ve ever heard someone say a meeting is at 1630 and then felt your brain do a small cartwheel, you have met the 24-hour clock. In the United States, we mostly live by the 12-hour clock, with a.m ...

Jules joined the Android Police team in 2019. He currently produces videos, creates art for our stories, and edits our podcast. Before that, he wrote features and news, managed our weekend content, ...

Most people learn how to read a watch to see what time it is at a young age. They use the same system throughout their lifetimes and wouldn’t think of it as something that could be confusing. That ...

It’s a marvel any of us ever learns to tell time. One “day” of 24 hours divided at noon into two 12-hour chunks — why 24 and 12? And each hour consists of 60 minutes with 60 seconds to a minute — why ...