Japan will often use 24-hour time when posting business hours, but they had this awesome innovation of rolling over the time of the store is open past midnight.

So if you see a bar with hours "19:00~26:00 (LO 25:30)" it means it's open from 7pm to 2am with last order at 1:30am. 🍻

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Emelia 👸🏻

@searls that is kinda chaotic but I also love it?

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Damax

@searls at the very beginning it’s weird then became totally logical and easy.
I suppose the biggest trouble are for 12 hours folks (with AM/PM) to go to the 24 hours system in the first place.

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Azul

@searls ohh i like it, it's like February 31st

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Rachel Greenham

@searls "It's not tomorrow until we close!" Bit like my personal "It's not tomorrow until I've got at least *some* sleep!”

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LaPingvino 🟙 :ir:

@searls a much more common variant of this that is still basically impossible with the AM/PM system: using 0:00 or 24:00 to distinguish which midnight on a day you talk about.

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Jyrgen N

@searls This seems weird — and surprisingly practical.

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