This is not a 24-hour clock

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A 24-hour clock should cycle every 24 hours. Seems obvious right? But in a lot of apps, we get something like this:

The 24-hour time picker in Google Calendar, showing 23:00 at the same position as 1:00 but in a different ring.

This is basically two 12 hour clocks jammed together. It forces you to think in lowly 12-hour terms rather than thinking about what part of the entire day cycle you need.

It gets worse too:

The "orbit" clock in the Kvaesitso launcher, which is essentially just a 12 hour clock but with 24-hour text

This is Kvaesitso's "orbit" clock when you have the system set to 24h. It's basically just a 12 hour clock with a 24 hour face. The bigger planet still has a 12 hour orbit but it displays 0-23 instead of 12-12.

What should a 24 hour clock look like? Behold, one of the few things OnePlus did right in their buggy-ass OS:

The 24-hour clock in OnePlus's built-in Clock app

0 is at the top, 12 is at the bottom, and it cycles once a day. Glorious.

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