People who can't reliably subtract 12 from numbers. They're out there.
replyIt's me! (But I solve it by using 24h for everything)
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replyHow about someone who was raised on 12h time and has used it for 70 years? Sure, the math to convert is pretty easy, but why?
replyI.e. boomers holding everyone else back again.
replyOk right. I didn't know people were used to that.
replyI am grappling with this but I can't.
replyYou did not know that large parts of the world default to 12h time?
This is absolutely NOT an American thing. I am not American and have never lived there. I am 58 years old, British and Irish, and lived a decade in Nigeria and a decade in Czechia. I have travelled widely around Europe and can get by in 6 foreign languages.
12h time in real daily life is more common everywhere I have ever been. Only minor subsections of humanity -- military people, maybe -- work on the 24h clock.
I am 38 and British and use 24hr clocks exclusively. This is also very common on the continent - the French nearly always use 24hr time for everything
replyYou didn’t know about 300 million Americans?
replyI'd guess that the very large majority of people don't know that americans use 12h time, no. Why would they?
replyI doubt that anyone knows 300 million people let alone that many Americans.
replyAmericans. The U.S. has a lot of people who are unaccustomed to 24 hour time.
replyI knew for the imperial units but not this. This country ... let's say it always amaze me.
replyThey use US customary, not imperial, they're slightly different sets of units.
reply> Some advocates of the customary system saw the French Revolutionary, or metric, system as atheistic. The president of an Ohio auxiliary of the Institute wrote that the traditional units were "a just weight and a just measure, which alone are acceptable to the Lord". His organization later went so far as to publish music for a song proclaiming "down with every 'metric' scheme".
replyOoh that explains a lot.
It’s the whole Anglosphere. We do it, as well as imperial measurements, to give the finger to Napoleon and his metric 10 hour long day system.
replyIt’s not the whole Anglosphere.
reply24 hour time is used extensively in the UK. For example, all public transport uses 24 hour times here.
But 24-hour time is not decimal, isn't it what you guys like?
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