Jo4ted@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoThe 24-hour clock might be the only military-grade thing Americans won't buy.message-squaremessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareThe 24-hour clock might be the only military-grade thing Americans won't buy.Jo4ted@lemmy.zip to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square65fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaretrashboypro@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·22 hours 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-up0·13 hours 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?
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?
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