I mean oddities mostly. I corelate the area code of my highschool love, and often the birthday of another. It has no significance beyond a few pleasant memories, but it is just one of life’s oddities for me. Do you experience similar oddities?

  • QuantumBamboo
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    299 months ago

    I always have a little chuckle at 13:37. It’s one of those times that I irrationally feel I see more often than any other time, but it’s just that I notice that specific set of numbers more than any other… or maybe I check the time at exactly the same point each day because my body clock is 1337!

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    What do you mean by correlate, could you provide an example?

    I like to make wishes at 11:11 and 12:34 but they “won’t come true” if I look at the clock again on the same time (eg. see it’s 11:11, make a wish, can’t look until 11:12 at least).

    • Jake [he/him]OP
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      Like at 7:04 you might think of July 4th. All numerical dates are represented on a 12 hour clock (e: if you’re using mmdd). I’m asking if your pattern recognition software is picking up on such a meaningless correlation and giving it some pleasant side effect or if that is not a very common mental connection.

      • @QualifiedKitten
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        All numerical dates are represented on a 12 hour clock.

        Only if you use mmdd date format. The majority of the world uses ddmm.

        • Jake [he/him]OP
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          29 months ago

          Yeah, but neither makes sense any more. I use yymmdd in my default file naming for natural sorting hierarchy. I just don’t think in that context. I guess that makes this post an interesting reflection from a couple of extra angles.

          Our US 3 digit area codes for phone number regions are likely not really paralleled elsewhere in the world either. It’s interesting all the little cultural subtleties that shape the mind.

  • @[email protected]
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    89 months ago

    17:38 is an inside joke with my friend so don’t know if that counts. 13:37 always makes me smile.

  • @[email protected]
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    59 months ago

    12:34 is known as “simulation time” in my house, the time we notice the most out of sheer happenstance. Clearly the simulation has a hard time coming up with anything better when I look at the clock.

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    49 months ago

    I’ve seen specific numbers so many times I know we’re living in a sim

  • @[email protected]
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    29 months ago

    Yes. I call it my “birthtime,” even though that name technically shadows another data point.

  • LucasWaffyWaf
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    29 months ago

    I haven’t been on a date in such a long time, so I’m afraid I can’t be much help here.