12 hr Vs 24 hr timepieces : Wed Jul 24, 2013 6:41 pm
Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:
Printing timetables is clearer and easier using the 24 hour clock. In the mass of thousands of numbers it's far more obvious that 0400 is very different to 1600 than seeing the 04.00am and 04.00pm.
But most people operate with the 12 hour clock. Very few people are going to tell you they'll pick you up at 1915.
The reason that all the train stations will have the 24 hour clock is that some of the old and slow brained still won't be able to quickly work out that 1915 is 7.15pm. The 24 hour clock is there to help them.
But most people operate with the 12 hour clock. Very few people are going to tell you they'll pick you up at 1915.
The reason that all the train stations will have the 24 hour clock is that some of the old and slow brained still won't be able to quickly work out that 1915 is 7.15pm. The 24 hour clock is there to help them.
You asked how many 24 hr clocks one had seen.
The answer remains loads.
Personally, many hundreds.
The reason for their use in no way invalidates the vast numbers in use on bedside tables, in railway stations and other travel terminals around the world.
Miltary personnel habitually refer to so-many "hundred" hours.
In global communication, the 24 hour clock is essential.
Live in the parochial past if you want but thrusting young chaps, such as I, embrace the newer world.