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[cormack12]

I dunno, I always write my times in all emails like 1430 or 1645 as it's clearer to me? Like 10am or 5pm just seems wrong.

 

[AJUMP23]

I like the 12 hour clock. But I understand the 24 hour clock.

 

[poppabk]

12 hour clock for my personal life, 24 hour clock for work.

 

[Methos#1975]

I'm a vet so 24 hours always

 

[dr_octagon]

My denist appointment is 2.30pm not 14.30.

 

[Punished Miku]

24 whenever possible. I use it at work all the time so it's pretty easy for me. Just more accurate and clear.

 

[Catphish]

This reminds me of my first Casio digital watch.

Who knew it was grooming me for military service?

 

[Jennings]

I swing both ways.

 

[chromhound]

i don't mind both but i prefer the 12 hour

 

[nush]

24 hour for myself, especially when I'm communicating over different timezones.

 

[Sub_Level]

12 is what I grew up with and is what most companies use.

24 makes more sense. But so does the metric system and using Celsius, so fuck it at this point.

 

[Punished Miku]

Do you guys put a zero in front of 3 digit times like an OCD psycho ... like me?

0745
0910

Maximum clarity.

 

[Kilau]

I'm on the standard 37 hour day. You'll get used to it or you'll have a psychotic episode.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

I'd prefer it if everyone used 24hr but since nobody does outside of the military in the US, I keep everything on 12hr.

 

[ClanOfNone]

24 hour, dad was a Navy man.

 

[jason10mm]

This is like the day/month/year vs month/day/year debate. I think it's whatever your culture is used to and can understand. I find that 12 hour people will frequently think 1630 is 6:30pm rather than 4:30pm so I'm very cautious about using 24hr time with most people.

06/04/2022 is what date???

 

[Sleepwalker]

I like the 12 hour clock. But I understand the 24 hour clock.

pretty much

 

[cormack12]

This is like the day/month/year vs month/day/year debate. I think it's whatever your culture is used to and can understand. I find that 12 hour people will frequently think 1630 is 6:30pm rather than 4:30pm so I'm very cautious about using 24hr time with most people.

06/04/2022 is what date???

American date format is stupid though.

You always want the most relevant number first. The most relevant is always the closest. Which is the day.
It's also the shortest amount of time. So makes double sense.

 

[DeepEnigma]

24

 

[Spaceman292]

I dunno, I always write my times in all emails like 1430 or 1645 as it's clearer to me? Like 10am or 5pm just seems wrong.

Not as wrong as unnecessary question marks

 

[R6Rider]

American date format is stupid though.

You always want the most relevant number first. The most relevant is always the closest. Which is the day.
It's also the shortest amount of time. So makes double sense.

Most of the time it's stupid, but sometimes it makes more sense.

Such as for any info that relies heavily on the month over the day. Where you need monthly context foremost. Examples being New Years, a person's birthday, holidays, anniversaries, etc.

On the other hand you have the Y/M/D format which is far superior tech wise and for information storage.

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As for the topic, I use 12 hour clock, but it's not because the 24 hour clock is hard to understand or anything. Simply because nothing in my life uses it on a regular basis.

 

[CatsGamesWhatever]

12 hour clock for myself. When dealing with any person on a time related issue it's a 24 hour clock because of stupidity.

 

[Ionian]

24 clock is clearer. Either is fine though, I'm not retarded (yet).

 

[EverydayBeast]

Some people have engineered beautiful clocks how about the clock level in Mario 64? Or the clocks in Majoras Mask?

 

[Gaelyon]

24 H clock, but i live in Europe so it's cultural. When speaking i can use either, but written always 24h format.

 

[MudoSkills]

24 hour because I'm an adult.

 

[Bartski]

24. More precision with fewer characters

 

[GeekyDad]

Daylight/nighttime. That other stuff is just noise to me.

 

[Sakura]

24 hour clock because there are 24 hours in a day.

 

[Mossybrew]

The only people I've ever known to use the 24 hour format were in the military. Other than that I've never seen its usage in either personal or professional settings.

 

[funkygunther]

24 hour clock because it's the adult way of doing it.

 

[p_xavier]

Military time: 0350 1830 etc.

Dates: YYYY MM DD

 

[jason10mm]

American date format is stupid though.

You always want the most relevant number first. The most relevant is always the closest. Which is the day.
It's also the shortest amount of time. So makes double sense.

Bah, you euros. No wonder none of you made it to the moon

I like the numeric month/day/year since it categorizes easily. I tend to write day-three letter month-year though just for clarity for when a dirty frenchie has to interpret my orders

What really gets me is the superlong 202206221600 format or something similar. Good grief, break that up or something!

 

[V1LÆM]

24 > 12

 

[Kamina]

24
12 is just used on analog clocks here anyway.

Edit: it is 17:34

 

[Dark Star]

12 for everything

more people (civilians, non military, your average business man) understand "your meeting is at 2:30 PM" not "your meeting is at 1430"

 

[InfiniteCombo]

12.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

American date format is stupid though.

You always want the most relevant number first. The most relevant is always the closest. Which is the day.
It's also the shortest amount of time. So makes double sense.

Is day really the most relevant number? What would you rather hear, "the game is being released in September" or "the game is being released on the 14th" ?

Which is more useful to you?

 

[Mikado]

In our house. we always keep every timekeeping device set to 24 hour time but for some reason when we say the time out loud we use 12 hour (because we're not in the military).

I just chalk it up to the general schizophrenia regarding units in this country:
- Vertical height is measured in feet, but horizontal distance in meters / km.
- Outdoor temperature in Celsius, but indoor temperature in Fahrenheit.
- Mass is measured in kg - unless it's people - in which case we use lbs.

Doesn't make a lot of sense but it is what it is.

 

[IDKFA]

If I'm writing it then 24. All my devices are also 24.

However, if I'm verbally saying the time the it's 12 hour. I wouldn't say to my son "it's twenty two hundred. Time for bed".

 

[thefool]

There’s 24 hours in a day. Why would I add complexity to it?

 

[NeoGiffer]

 

[Pejo]

I grew up 12 hour, but gradually saw the benefits of the 24 hour. I still mainly give people times in 12 hour format though because in casual conversation nobody seems to be able to do conversion from 24h to 12h easily. Add in a time zone difference, and you're seeing brain melt time.

 

[Catphish]

Thinking about it, the 24hr format, overall, just makes more sense, and should be universal.

In 12hr format, you have to check am or pm to know which (arbitrarily divided) half of the day a given time refers to.

In 24hr format, the day hasn't been split. So there's no check needed. It's simple and plain. Easier to mentally add/subtract hours as well.

Also, cormack12 is right. Our American version of dating is dumb. The US military uses DDMMYYYY, so why doesn't the rest of the country?

And while we're at it, someone please explain to me why we don't use fking metric.

 

[daffyduck]

I'd prefer it if everyone used 24hr but since nobody does outside of the military in the US, I keep everything on 12hr.

Hospitals do.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

In writing, always 24. It’s the way in Italy.

In conversation though, it’s always 12 unless you want to be absolutely specific and/or formal. When you‘re giving an appointment for a meeting or a visit, you may actually say “come at seventeen thirty”, but informally it’s always “let’s meet at half past five”.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

I do both but at home primarily 12h clock.

 

[IntentionalPun]

12. Does 24 make sense? Sure, but that's not what people use in general in the US. Just throw AM/PM on something if that context is necessary... but it rarely is, since in general the context is enough to know what you mean.

My co-workers aren't going to show up on Zoom at 2 AM when I schedule a meeting for "2" lol

The reason slightly less "logical" things end up a norm... is because things become second nature. It's all just language... you learn it, others learn it, you communicate.. the end.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

It largely depends where you live.

 

[TVexperto]

a day has 24 hours...so why would i say pm or am?? do you also go around and split 365days in half? oh hey lets meet after 42days pm