Jo4ted@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoThe 24-hour clock might be the only military-grade thing Americans won't buy.message-squaremessage-square79linkfedilinkarrow-up1320file-text
arrow-up1320message-squareThe 24-hour clock might be the only military-grade thing Americans won't buy.Jo4ted@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square79linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaretrashboypro@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 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-up1·7 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-squaretrashboypro@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days ago24 hour thing is a new thing for us too man give us time
minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 days agoWe use them interchangeably in speech. Whichever one currently rolls off the tongue better. Idk about trashboy’s “nobody”.
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.
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?
24 hour thing is a new thing for us too man give us time
We use them interchangeably in speech. Whichever one currently rolls off the tongue better. Idk about trashboy’s “nobody”.
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