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
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…
Listen, it’s easier, especially when you work with scientific or industrial systems
Jack Bauer wants to know your location. And if you don’t tell him he will torture your wife.
There are several industries that run on 24 hour time outside of the military. Ocean shipping, aviation, and medical care off the top of my head. Want to throw a real wrench in the works? Start figuring Zulu time, especially when time changes happen at different times of the year in different countries or US states that don’t change at all.
Anyway, 24 hour time is so much easier. No making mistakes forgetting to select AM/PM when setting an alarm or reminder, for instance. Even converting it to 12 hour time takes no thought at all of you use it for a while.
Lmao
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.
are Americans really confused with 15:30?
No, it’s just a familiarity thing and not even rare. It’s like switching between metric and imperial units, if you’re used to seeing something in one format it can be jarring to switch it in your head at a moments notice. A lot of people in the US use 24 hr time if they have a job relating to documentation or if their working hours can cause confusion.
For example, I have a client that has to document received material and they are open from 04:00 - 22:00. They use the 24 hr format because it is common to receive material at both 04:00 and 16:00 and having to make an extra column to type am or pm on their logs is stupid and is just another opportunity to make a mistake.
It’s really not a big deal to anyone, if you get a job that uses it then you switch your phone and within a week or two it’s second nature. Every blue moon someone will notice that all your clocks are set to a 24 hr clock and someone might ask why or what you do to need it, but that’s it.
I grew up with a Betamax tape player under the family TV. It had a 24 hour clock and it was the timepiece in the house that was in the right spot to tell us all that it was bedtime. As a result I have an intuitive feel for the 24 hour clock. But if you haven’t used it regularly, which most ordinary Americans don’t, then yeah you just have to stop and do the arithmetic before you can connect 21:00 to your sense of time.
I think they see it as some kind of metric time, and therefore something to be avoided at all costs.
Yes, it angers and confuses them.
what is that, like extra noon or something?
I used to work in radio, and we kept our logs in 24h time.
Only in America 24 hour is a 3 month long tv show
That’s nothing compared to 5 minutes in a Japanese anime.
That’s Dragon Ball!!
tell me about it.
I’ve written three different papers on social media’s effects on the brain and I still can’t pull away.
It’s cause crayons that come in 24 packs taste better than the 12 packs
And nurses I guess.
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.
