• namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    Agreed. I’ve never understood the logic of splitting the hours of the day in half. 1800 is so much nicer than 6PM.

    I don’t think that’s purely an American thing though. If I had to guess, I’d say that most of the world uses 12-hour clocks instead of 24-hours. I could be wrong though. Nevertheless, I usually write all times in 24-hour format. But it always sounds awkward trying to use it in speech. I haven’t figured out a good way to do that yet.

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        10 months ago

        Please, correct the link, cause now it has closing bracket included.

        On substance - even that makes more sense, with 4 zones designating morning, afternoon, evening, and night. 2 zones conflate them.

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      10 months ago

      In my country it’s normal to pronounce time in either format, and it doesn’t make any confusion.

      Also we don’t use AM or PM when using 12-hour format: we say night/morning/day/evening. Like “3 in the day” means 3PM, or 15:00.

      “Fifteen-o-o” works just fine as well.

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          10 months ago

          “Three in the morning” is super weird, like, it’s not morning, this thing is called night :D

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            10 months ago

            If you said “three at night” to an American, I think he’d have to process it for a minute. You’d say it’s _ in the morning from like 12:30AM through noon, _ in the afternoon from noon to about 6 or 7, then _ at night/evening from then till midnight.

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              10 months ago

              12:30AM is something that completely breaks my mind :D

              We’re talking 00:30, right? And what if there is 0:15, for example?