Only muricans think 24h clock = military time 😂
Everything is military/war oriented. Remember the “war on drugs”? They can’t comprehend the world except from a perspective of opposition and control. 🤷🥲
I hate when people associate the two. I got used to it because I was in civil aviation, and I kept using it because it’s better.
Well it kinda is 'cos jar heads can’t say 12:00, they say 1200, a literal twelve-hundred. Only military does that.
It’s still nasty powers of 12.
Nasty powerses
French?
My sleep schedule is shit. I set everything to 24 hours so that I don’t wake up at 8 PM and think that I’m late for my work at 8 AM.
I started because I used to follow a 28-hour day and would wake up at 6:30, look out the window, and wonder “Which 6:30 though?”
Smash cut to me in college, freaking out, and rushing across campus because I woke up late for my final, and then wondering why it was so dark at 3:30 PM. Even better was when I later actually slept through my final.
I use 24h time because my frens are of different timezones
Damn, me and my friends are so poor we all have to share the one timezone
24hr analog watches are the real shit, though!
Had a good emulated one on my phone homescreen for a long time, but unfortunately app is not supported by newer versions of Android any more… :-(
Are you talking about a watch with 24 different numbers on it?
Are you talking about a watch with 24 different numbers on it?
Yes, arranged in a circle, 24 at the top, 12 at the bottom, lower part is day, upper part is night.
App also had a daylight indication shading depending on local sunrise/sunset.
Loved it!
Wow, never knew that was a thing
I’ve been thinking for a while about getting a slow watch, a 24-hour watch that only has an hour hand
l like the idea, but I suspect it often might have the opposite effect as intended.
Imagine e.g. taking a quick glance at the watch to determine if you will still catch the bus - this would most likely result in you sprinting to the bus stop just to be on the safe side…
In the UK we all (generally) read 24 hour but speak in 12 hour. So we see 15:00 but say 3. Only military peeps talk on 24, and it can sound weird, but people can easily understand them as long as they can parse the who “-hundred” thing (15:00 being fifteen-hundred)
In Denmark it’s always written in 24hr, but I’d say it’s 50/50 whether we say 3 or 15 for 15:00.
I guess saying 3 is more casual. But we never use “hundred”. 15:30 would just be fifteen-thirty.
Same thing in Argentina. As usual, USA are the weird ones xD
It is similar in Germany. Often with the word Uhr (like o’clock in english) added.
“3 Uhr” or “15 Uhr 30”
Yep, though we also have “Klokken halv 4” which is especially confusing for foreigners
I don’t speak the language, but this looks like it would literally translate to something like “half of the fourth hour” which in English we might say as “half past three”. Kind of interesting that we might say “quarter to four” to mean 3:45, but never “half til four” to mean 3:30.
Yup, it is just half an hour before, very commonly used here. There’s some other English language (Australian?) where it means the opposite - totally not confusing.
We also use quarter to/quarter past as well of course
Some people from eastern parts of germany go with stuff like “Dreiviertel 3” - three-quarters 3 - 14:45 Uhr.
A good way of keeping the time-information secret, I am certainly too slow to translate that.
Dutchie here, same for me. In English it’s easy to say 3pm or 9pm but in Dutch that would be 3 uur 's middags (in the afternoon) or 9 uur 's avonds (in the evening) so 15 uur and 21 uur is shorter to say. However, when it’s “am” I always say 's nachts (at night) or 's ochtends (in the morning) to avoid confusion. But all digital clocks in NL are on 24h. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone with a 12h notation on their phone or anything else. It’s such a standard, I don’t even think my oven and microwave have a 12h notation option.
I think it’s just a case of uneducated ignorant Americans stuck in the past, while also having no clue there exists a rest of the world where people are not weird. Like with their imperial system and IALA buoys system (for the entire American continents by the way).
I think most of Europe uses 24h in writing but 12h when speaking.
I think most of
Europethe world uses 24h in writing but 12h when speaking.Actually the French use 24h and speak 24h.
Leftovers of the military mindset from Napoleon, I’m sure of it!
Nah 24h time was introduced by the US in Europe during WW2.
Bulgarian here, same here. 24 hour removes the ambiguity in written form without the need for a suffix, 12 hour is shorter in speech and 99% of the time it doesn’t need specifying because the AM/PM is evident from the context.
Only in America do they judge people for using the 24hr clock. Most of the rest of the world uses it. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/what-countries-use-24-hour-time
It can be a benefit for night shift folks because that can really start to mess with your head. A digital watch can be a big help too.
American 24-hour user here. Its just a lot easier to calculate time intervals and tell the time from a quick glance with 24-hour time.
I just don’t understand what pm and am mean:(
After morning, Past midday, or is it the other way around? 😅
For me it’s After Midnight and Pefore Midnight. 😄 I have no idea which one is 12PM and which one is 12AM, though…
After morning and previous morning
Past meridian and almost meridian?
Post meridiem and ante meridiem
I can never get 12PM and 12AM right.
That’s because it it’s defined in a way that is linguistically correct, but utterly insane for regular use.
I do this because I kept setting AM alarms to PM and missing them. We are not the same.
I do it because then I don’t put my calendar appointments in at oh, 3:00 AM.
15:00 is SOOOOOO much better for adhd me.
Also: it makes total sense! 24 hours, 24 separate numbers. It’s the most logical conclusion.
Also fewer wasted pixels on the am/pm text. 24h is just objectively superior in every way.
There are two comments here:
- I can count to 24
- I get confused by 12PM
The real crime is dividing the day into 24h, 60m per hour, 60s per min.
I get confused by 12PM
Everyone gets confused by that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#Confusion_at_noon_and_midnight
A LOT of western measurement was base 12, the only reason people are so used to base 10 is because that’s how many fingers most people have. Base 12 is really useful however, it is uniquely divisible and 60 as 5*12 is even more so.
I don’t know why western, cause we got that from the Babylonians
Maybe it’s because of my understanding of history but I’d consider Iraq to be Western. It was more or less linked in with Europe going back to the bronze age much like how North Africa was. Frankly speaking the only reason it is usually separated is because of the great Schism and then the crusades which caused much of Europe to consider it as other.
That’s fair
Listen, it’s easier, especially when you work with scientific or industrial systems
