Well, time measurement and the division of the day into 12/24 hours is of course entirely a human concept and thus a bit arbitrary and made up, so yes, you could divise a system with 8 hour splits, sure.
But the 12-hour system makes sense as soon as you buy into the 1 hour = 60 minutes convention and split that up into 5-minute blocks. There are 12*5minutes in an hour, so after 12 hours your hour and minute hand reach the same position again, thus the reset.
That doesn’t work so well with 8 hours, because you’d have to divide the hour into 60/8=7.5 minute blocks, which is pretty awkward.
Or you’d have to define the hour as having 64 minutes and divide it into 8*8 minutes blocks. And theres a dualist religion in my favorite fantasy RPG world, that would award you sainthood if you did that, but that’s not the world we live in.
Well, time measurement and the division of the day into 12/24 hours is of course entirely a human concept and thus a bit arbitrary and made up, so yes, you could divise a system with 8 hour splits, sure.
But the 12-hour system makes sense as soon as you buy into the 1 hour = 60 minutes convention and split that up into 5-minute blocks. There are 12*5minutes in an hour, so after 12 hours your hour and minute hand reach the same position again, thus the reset.
That doesn’t work so well with 8 hours, because you’d have to divide the hour into 60/8=7.5 minute blocks, which is pretty awkward.
Or you’d have to define the hour as having 64 minutes and divide it into 8*8 minutes blocks. And theres a dualist religion in my favorite fantasy RPG world, that would award you sainthood if you did that, but that’s not the world we live in.
Damn, this person knows clocks
I understand the thrust of your argument, but I respectfully disagree.