To not be able to agree on this 'simple' question

[pooopypants]

Please help me answer, to DH, what has been an ongoing discussion for at least 4 weeks:

A shop closes at 12pm (midday) and reopens at 2pm the same day. 12pm on the dot, 2pm on the dot. How long is the shop closed for, in hours?

There's no riddle behind it, nothing to bend time, stop clocks etc etc

It's also not a trick question, we just can't agree and I can't find another way to explain this

So how many minutes was he working out at?

OMG. Omg.
What's his job? How is he functioning in actual life by counting like that?

Does he normally struggle with day to day understanding?!

@LuminousAmber hit the nail on the head there

OP you are obviously correct and your DH is batshit crazy

Show him on a clock OP. Count it out. Say "BING!" when you start at 12...explain it like a stopwatch. Use an online stopwatch.

Never put him in charge of the Sunday roast!

Your husband is an idiot. It’s closed for 2 hours.

How many minutes did he calculate?

I hope he doesn't employ anybody and pay them by the hour with that logic.

We need to see this diagram.

In a way, it's the 2pm that is not counted. As it is closed from 12:00:00 to 13:59:59 (i.e. One second before 2pm). If we weren't in lockdown I'd tell him to stand outside with a stopwatch. In fact he still could use a stopwatch with a clock at home.

Please please please share his diagram! That will make my day 😂

At least we've found something that all of mumsnet finally agrees on.

I’ve just asked my 6 and 4 year olds as we’ve been learning to tell the time this week.

‘If a shop closes at 12 o clock and opens at 2 o clock, how many hours is it closed for?’.

Answer from both... 2 hours.

He's actually fairly intelligent, degree level education, very senior job etc. Maths is a bit of a struggle sometimes.

I'm doing the schooling! It's been an inside joke for years that the kids are to come to me for maths homework!

So he thinks there are 25 hours in a day?!

2 hours. Get a clock with hands out and use that to demonstrate. I can not work out how on earth he has come up with the answer 3 hours

Do you have an old fashioned analogue clock anywhere? If so, put the hands at 12 then ask him to move the hands 1 hour. Stop, then ask him to move the hands an hour again & ask him what the clock now says.

Ughhhhh I dated someone who insisted on working shit out like this. Beware, this may make you nauseous.

He insisted on 'counting' how many days (yes days) we had been dating/since our first date. A grown man in his thirties! But he would always add an extra day because he counted first date day as one day. I would argue that the following day would be 24 hours, so one day, but nope, he wouldn't have it. Clearly he was desperate to have a longer relationship he had to fudge the numbers He didn't last long! creep

He’s not in charge of anything important is he?

😳

It's very easy to prove to him. Wait until it's 12pm, start a timer, come back at 2pm, stop the timer.

Ah x-post with EarlGreyT

Well then he's an arse if he knows you're better at these things and he still thinks you're wrong!

How can he look at a clock face and NOT see that it's two hours?

There you go, even google agrees 😉

Sorry OP, but this has made me properly chuckle. Is he finding lockdown very hard? 😂