Jo4ted@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoThe 24-hour clock might be the only military-grade thing Americans won't buy.message-squaremessage-square79linkfedilinkarrow-up1321arrow-down117file-text
arrow-up1304arrow-down1message-squareThe 24-hour clock might be the only military-grade thing Americans won't buy.Jo4ted@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square79linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaretrashboypro@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down9·9 days agoPsst, confused American, let me give you a secret: Nobody uses the 24-hour clock in speech, we.just write with that and call 13:00 “1 PM” or something like that in our local language.
minus-squareFinalsolo963@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 days agoI wasn’t confused before, but now I am. If you have to do the conversion to 12 hour to speak, what’s the point?
minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 days agoWe use them interchangeably in speech. Whichever one currently rolls off the tongue better. Idk about trashboy’s “nobody”.
minus-squaretrashboypro@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 days ago24 hour thing is a new thing for us too man give us time
Psst, confused American, let me give you a secret: Nobody uses the 24-hour clock in speech, we.just write with that and call 13:00 “1 PM” or something like that in our local language.
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I wasn’t confused before, but now I am. If you have to do the conversion to 12 hour to speak, what’s the point?
We use them interchangeably in speech. Whichever one currently rolls off the tongue better. Idk about trashboy’s “nobody”.
24 hour thing is a new thing for us too man give us time