I suggest banning the am/pm thing
 

It's confusing.

Thank you for reading.

We need a metric equivalent. It would be much simpler.

use military time

I taught my 5 year old niece to remember "am = at morning, pm = past morning" lol.

Yup! Although over here it's not called military.
It just makes way more sense imo.

She will grow up Emo. Totally confused.

My brothers an idiot so I don't have much hope anyway. :Oh crap

I grew up using military time (24 hour format) but prefer to use AM/PM. Much simpler and has more meaning in every day life. Why go through the trouble of deducting 12 from the military format to find out what time it actually is? But to each his own, of course. :)

Nothing confusing about it if you grew up with it.

'military time' seems such a quaint expression.

No no, when it's 10:30 you also have to tell if it's am or pm.
10:30 or 22:30 is way more direct. And easier.

Now i think of it, why do you think the military time exists?

The shackles have time written all over them.

you wouldn't need to deduce it if you lived in a country with a 24 hours clock

You do not need to deduct, you just know (or learn in few minutes) that for example 19:00 is 7:00.
In spoken language its rarely used but in written (in this case forum posts) it makes perfect sense.

Because it is not open to interpretation. If someone says we are dropping a bomb at 7:30 you don't want them to be confused. If it's 19:30 there is no chance for it.

Yes, obviously. It wasn't a question :)

hey, think about it for a minute, it is the other time around, there are 24 hours int he day not 12, with regular time, when it is after noon, you have to add 12 hours to know what time it really is, not the other way around.

you mind adjusts, I went to high school on a military base, and we used military time, I had not used it before. Day 1 it was confusing, Day 10 I no longer had to think about subtracting 12 hours, you knew it by heart, Day 25, you stop comparing the two systems at all, because the comparison is irrelevant, you no longer think "ok 2100 is 9pm" you think 2100 is 2100, and when someone says it is 9 pm, you convert it to your new system.

is she autistic (like Franck)?

Maybe in English it's rarely used, but the French use the 24h format all the time, written or spoken. The French are always more logical :winkwink:

Hm just checked wikipedia and not many countries use the 12-hour system.. only:

The 12-hour clock is the dominant system of time written and spoken in:
Bangladesh
English Canada
Colombia
Costa Rica
Egypt
El Salvador
Ghana
Honduras
Hong Kong
Iran
Jordan
Malaysia
Mexico
New Zealand
Nepal
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Philippines
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Taiwan
United States
Venezuela

Alternatively there is a 6-hour clock :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-hour_clock

I prefer not keeping time. I'll get there when I get there and if we have a date/appointment that should be discussed 30 minutes or however long it takes me to get there beforehand.

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so when you answer the question "when do we meet for drinks tonight" you (or french) says "at 21th hour"? Not "at 9"? Strange.

In most 24 hour clock countries "21th hour" instead of "9th hour" in spoken language are rarely used. Usually its just 9th (evening or morning is implied) or they say "9 in the evening/morning" if its not implied.
More common use in spoken language is when somebody asks "whats the time?" and you say time by looking at your digital watch (on the phone etc).

you can say both, but "9 o'clock in the evening" (9 heures du soir) is more common
We have also analogic clocks with 12 hours

http://www.pendule-shop.com/_i/1927/...258194523.jpeg

edit: never mind, you wrote the same thing

in fact 21 o'clock is less ambigous than 9 o'clock

when I studied English in 5-6th grade, it wasn't enough that the language felt backwards to me but also having to remember am/pm and exactly what it meant. Hated it. Not to mention the pounds, and ounces...

Ah bon? Ici on dit a 21 heures... Les Marseillais doivent etre tjrs different!

Huh?

When the fuck have you ever been asked the time and the other person not known if it were day or night? Were they dropped on their head as a child?

I agree - AM/PM has called me a scammer (probably / possibly) on multiple occasions, and not once have they posted proof ! :mad:

So yes - Ban the fucker :2 cents:

When asked the time is just one situation. When you plan future meetings for example. Lets meet at 9 Tuesday. You have to specify morning or evening.

Maybe you were for not understandig this?
If i tell someone i'll see you monday at 10:30. Without mentioning am or pm how is he supposed to know exactly?

Just say: The party is on 1-6-2013-22:30
It keeps the dumb out:winkwink:

actually it's on 6.1.2013 - 22:30 :winkwink:

unless you meant first of June

actually its 2013 01 06, but it depends on the country.