Current Events > 12hr clocks > 24hr clocks

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Rika_Furude
02/23/24 12:57:10 AM
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no poll cause its just the facts
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ssb_yunglink2
02/23/24 12:58:05 AM
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Staring directly at the sun and divining the time based on your intuition>>>>>

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OriginalPlain2
02/23/24 1:04:31 AM
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I used to use 24 hours when I was young

didnot do well with some of the confusion

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RetuenOfDevsman
02/23/24 1:09:21 AM
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The thing Europeans don't understand about how 12hr time works is that the AM/PM is completely unnecessary. If you ask someone to meet you at 3 and they show up at 3AM, then you're dealing with an idiot and you're better off missing them anyway.
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thisworld
02/23/24 1:31:13 AM
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RetuenOfDevsman posted...
The thing Europeans don't understand about how 12hr time works is that the AM/PM is completely unnecessary. If you ask someone to meet you at 3 and they show up at 3AM, then you're dealing with an idiot and you're better off missing them anyway.

"Meet me at 8"
8AM? 8PM? Which one?
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Enclave
02/23/24 1:33:56 AM
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24 hour clock is objectively superior, anybody saying otherwise is wrong.

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Mew
02/23/24 1:34:03 AM
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Enclave posted...
24 hour clock is objectively superior, anybody saying otherwise is wrong.


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Dark_Arbron
02/23/24 1:35:04 AM
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Enclave posted...
24 hour clock is objectively superior, anybody saying otherwise is wrong.

Hence why the professionals use it. Military, security, and I assume all emergency services too.

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SailorGoon
02/23/24 1:36:49 AM
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Yeah 24 is the way to go. Especially when you work with people all over the world. It's much easier to calculate the time differences using a 24 hour clock.

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CassandraCroft
02/23/24 1:40:17 AM
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24 hour clocks >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>12 hour clocks.

I always use the 24 hour clock. Can't remember when I last used the 12 hour clock.


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Dark_Arbron
02/23/24 1:40:58 AM
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CassandraCroft posted...
24 hour clocks >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>12 hour clocks.

I always use the 24 hour clock. Can't remember when I last used the 12 hour clock.

In my experience Windows seems to come set to 24 hour time by default nowadays.


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Karovorak
02/23/24 1:44:23 AM
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RetuenOfDevsman posted...
The thing Europeans don't understand about how 12hr time works is that the AM/PM is completely unnecessary. If you ask someone to meet you at 3 and they show up at 3AM, then you're dealing with an idiot and you're better off missing them anyway.

It's somewhat strange, but we usually use both for some reason.

Writen: 24h all the time.
Talking: Anything goes, pure anarchy, fuck the rules, mix them up however you want.

And then we have the regional problem if "half 8" means "half past 8" or "half towards 8".

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Smashingpmkns
02/23/24 1:45:57 AM
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16 o clock sounds dumb af

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Azn_Psycho
02/23/24 1:46:13 AM
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24 is strictly superior, especially when chatting with people throughout the world.

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Dark_Arbron
02/23/24 1:48:13 AM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
16 o clock sounds dumb af

Hence my question. Youd usually pronounce that 1600 hours but unless youre using that in some kind of professional context youre just going to sound like a loser.

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Smashingpmkns
02/23/24 1:50:44 AM
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Saying 1600 hours like I'm preparing to go to war when I'm just meeting up with a friend at a coffee shop

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SailorGoon
02/23/24 1:50:52 AM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
16 o clock sounds dumb af
Well yeah... Nobody says that.

I'll usually ask my coworkers "hey, drinks afterwards at 17?" Nobody says o clock. If anything they'll say hundred. Seventeen Hundred. Just that. None of this seventeen hundred hours nonsense. They don't even talk like that in the military. It's just 17 or 1700

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Foppe
02/23/24 1:53:41 AM
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Smashingpmkns posted...
16 o clock sounds dumb af
Only if you are not used to it.

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Kamen_Rider_Blade
02/23/24 1:55:07 AM
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Enclave posted...
24 hour clock is objectively superior, anybody saying otherwise is wrong.


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RetuenOfDevsman
02/24/24 6:39:23 PM
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thisworld posted...
"Meet me at 8"
8AM? 8PM? Which one?
Well, are you meeting for a concert or a day trip?
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KajeI
02/24/24 6:40:54 PM
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ssb_yunglink2 posted...
Staring directly at the sun and divining the time based on your intuition>>>>>
Are you really telling time if you aren't looking into a cat's eyes and figuring it out based on their pupil dilation???

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Ratchetrockon
02/24/24 6:42:12 PM
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Id rather be awake for the entire clock so 12 o clocks for me. I have no use for 24 hours cuz I tend to fall asleep a lil bit after the 12 hours mark

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Solid_Snake07
02/24/24 6:46:26 PM
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Military uses 24 hour clock for a reason. That reason being it leaves no room for ambiguity.

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SailorGoon
02/25/24 3:40:40 AM
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RetuenOfDevsman posted...
Well, are you meeting for a concert or a day trip?
Meeting for the gym.

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Rika_Furude
02/25/24 3:41:53 AM
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SailorGoon posted...
Meeting for the gym.
Is it a work day or the weekend
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UndefeatedGOAT
02/25/24 3:42:58 AM
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Its not that hard to read both, i prefer 12 hour
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Kradek
02/25/24 3:44:00 AM
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Enclave posted...
24 hour clock is objectively superior, anybody saying otherwise is wrong.

As an American, I gotta agree. And while we're at it let's scrub Daylight Savings Time from our country.

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SailorGoon
02/25/24 3:45:09 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...
Is it a work day or the weekend
I go to the gym with the bros same times every day

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LeoRavus
02/25/24 3:45:49 AM
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My brain refuses to do the math to tell military time. I know it's the number minus 12 to get the normal time, but my brain thinks it's a fucking stupid thing to do so it just shuts down.

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IAmTheNakedMan
02/25/24 4:15:26 AM
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You know.
I just learned how to tell/read the time when I was a small child.
Both ways, for many reasons. 1. It saves a lot of confusion, 2. I'm adaptable to how other people will read and tell the time and 3. I'm not a fucking idiot.

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thisworld
02/25/24 4:17:13 AM
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If you ask someone to meet you at 3 and they show up at 3AM, then you're dealing with an idiot and you're better off missing them anyway.
"Meet me at 8" 8AM? 8PM? Which one?
Well, are you meeting for a concert or a day trip?
Meeting for the gym.
Is it a work day or the weekend?
I go to the gym with the bros same times every day.

umm just use 24hr clocks;)
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Glob
02/25/24 4:17:42 AM
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Enclave posted...
24 hour clock is objectively superior, anybody saying otherwise is wrong.

SailorGoon posted...
Yeah 24 is the way to go. Especially when you work with people all over the world. It's much easier to calculate the time differences using a 24 hour clock.

Dark_Arbron posted...
Hence why the professionals use it. Military, security, and I assume all emergency services too.

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GunmaN1905
02/25/24 4:59:50 AM
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Always 24h on every device, but 12h format when talking to people.
There are very, very few instances where 12h format can cause confusion.
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Rika_Furude
02/25/24 5:13:38 AM
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thisworld posted...
"Meet me at 8" 8AM? 8PM? Which one?
Well, are you meeting for a concert or a day trip?
Meeting for the gym.
Is it a work day or the weekend?
I go to the gym with the bros same times every day.

umm just use 24hr clocks;)
Point is to use your brain, people just automatically know whether its AM or PM, no need to think beyond trolling my thread
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TetsuoS2
02/25/24 5:17:40 AM
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why dont some people know that 12am means midnight and not noon ?

Anyway, don't really care, use whatever you like.

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Sufferedphoenix
02/25/24 5:36:27 AM
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I prefer military time. Even when I worked fast food our clock in clock out sheets where in military time

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Rika_Furude
02/25/24 5:39:23 AM
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Medical/military fields use 24Hr time because they operate 24 hours a day. Your example of meet at 8 for coffee is still dead simple, its all about context
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Rika_Furude
02/25/24 5:41:20 AM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Yes. Next
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thisworld
02/25/24 5:42:48 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...
Point is to use your brain, people just automatically know whether its AM or PM, no need to think beyond trolling my thread

Calm down a bit, no need for trolling accusation. The point was the bolded part above is not automatically true for everyone, regardless of their brain and mental capacity.

If it is for you? Great, more power to you. But if other people don't catch on? The convo I quoted illustrates exactly that and 24 hrs clocks is a legit solution to that.
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GunmaN1905
02/25/24 5:43:55 AM
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thisworld posted...
Calm down a bit, no need for trolling accusation. The point was the bolded part above is not automatically true for everyone, regardless of their brain and mental capacity.

If it is for you? Great, more power to you. But if other people don't catch on? The convo I quoted illustrates exactly that and 24 hrs clocks is a legit solution to that.

I'd honestly like to hear some situations where people can mistake AM and PM.
Please give actual examples.
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Rika_Furude
02/25/24 5:45:15 AM
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thisworld posted...
Calm down a bit, no need for trolling accusation. The point was the bolded part above is not automatically true for everyone, regardless of their brain and mental capacity.

If it is for you? Great, more power to you. But if other people don't catch on? The convo I quoted illustrates exactly that and 24 hrs clocks is a legit solution to that.
Its the exact same thing people here claim Fahrenheit is needed for - its just better for casual use
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SailorGoon
02/25/24 5:46:55 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...
Yes. Next
Nope. You showed up 12 hours early. Get back.

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Rika_Furude
02/25/24 5:49:04 AM
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SailorGoon posted...
Nope. You showed up 12 hours early. Get back.
1) nobody meets at 8pm to have coffee
2) even if they did, youd know based on the context (of which none was provided ITT)
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Ultima_Fury
02/25/24 5:50:42 AM
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I use 24 hour clock due to being in aviation and I have to use Zulu time as well.
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SailorGoon
02/25/24 5:53:01 AM
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Rika_Furude posted...
1) nobody meets at 8pm to have coffee
False. Here in Korea, majority of my cafe meet ups have been in the evening. Only like thrice in my near two years, have I been to a cafe with someone else in the morning. Did more morning meets in the states, but evening meets weren't uncommon either.

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Rika_Furude
02/25/24 5:54:12 AM
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SailorGoon posted...
False. Here in Korea, majority of my cafe meet ups have been in the evening. Only like thrice in my near two years, have I been to a cafe with someone else in the morning. Did more morning meets in the states, but evening meets weren't uncommon either.
Thats crazy, the more you know. Thats also additional context that would go towards deciding whether its 8pm or 8am. Its also easier to clarify 8pm vs saying meet at 20
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SailorGoon
02/25/24 5:56:56 AM
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Eight P M
Twen ty
8pm (3)
20 (2)
By my count, 20 is easier in both writing and speech

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Serious_Cat
02/25/24 6:22:50 AM
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GunmaN1905 posted...
I'd honestly like to hear some situations where people can mistake AM and PM.
Please give actual examples.

Flight times. Work schedules.

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