USA doesn't use 24 hour clock ?

[Quickstatus]

Meh, 24hr/UTC Does not compares with Solar day or Sidereal Day + correction for Earths precession (AKA precession of the equinoxes) , tidal effects, earthquakes.

 

[samh004]

I use 24hr exclusively, just how my mind works.

 

[Forg]

Fiji Time is useful for when you don’t really want to attend the thing you have to attend.

 

[Noah Count]

As I understand time zones UTC is is pretty much the accepted. Military time zones just makes it easier for the Sigs to receive and respond to comms/messages as all time is transmitted in local time with the correct time zone designator. When calling in Artillery, CAS or NGS time on target is quite important but relevant to to the average punter.

Edit. Last sentence should have been, When calling in Artillery, CAS or NGS time on target is quite important but not relevant to to the average punter.

 

[SYD]

When calling in Artillery, CAS or NGS time on target is quite important but relevant to to the average punter.

Especially if they’re targeting the HQ next to your hotel with Naval Gunfire Support!

But we’re probably digressing from 24 hr time flying in/out of the US of A….

 

[Brissy1]

For the vast majority it’s useless/confusing

But it would end the daylight saving debate

 

[Scarlett]

It’s not a surprise, they are still using miles, feet, inches, gallons, ounce, Fahrenheit, pound. Even the dates are wrong

Someone will drag that nation kicking and screaming into the new millennium one of these days…

 

[Scarlett]

But it would end the daylight saving debate

“Gotta milk them cows at 1900Z.”

Every Qlder:

 

[eric2011]

I thought the 24h clock was the standard. Mrs eric2011 is currently sitting at Auckland domestic terminal because I booked her an 8.30 flight believing it was AM. Turns out ANZ dont use 24h clock either because it turns out I had booked the 8.30PM. Make matters worse she cant get into the ANZ reginal lounge until 4 hour prior.
Guess who's not a happy camper.

 

[mrsterryn]

Brought up on 24 hour clock (dad was in the navy)
Husband also uses the 24 hour clock
If someone tells me my time is 1700 I know when it is , if told it is 5 o clock, then I need am or pm.

 

[ZigZagWanderer]

My greatest problem with 24h time is in Europe. First of all I have to translate the words into English, then translate the time into 12h!

This is infinitely worse in the Netherlands, where "10 past half seventeen" means 4:40 pm. Try working that out after imbibing!

 

[LondonAussie]

The first few months after moving to London I was getting annoyed at places listing things in 24 hour time and having to 'convert' afternoon and evening times to PM, but now many years of living here and 24 hour time comes completely natural to me.

Also when my phone settings updated the region from English Australia to English UK the time display changed to 24 hour time which forced me to learn it.

 

[mrsterryn]

My greatest problem with 24h time is in Europe. First of all I have to translate the words into English, then translate the time into 12h!

This is infinitely worse in the Netherlands, where "10 past half seventeen" means 4:40 pm. Try working that out after imbibing!

I would have thought that was 17.40 aka 5.40 pm

 

[AIRwin]

I would have thought that was 17.40 aka 5.40 pm

No daylight saving?

 

[Forg]

My greatest problem with 24h time is in Europe. First of all I have to translate the words into English, then translate the time into 12h!

This is infinitely worse in the Netherlands, where "10 past half seventeen" means 4:40 pm. Try working that out after imbibing!

So when you say they're translating into English ... you're even translating into the time in England?

[Enjoying bad dad-jokes on time & language comparisons/differences? Guilty your honour!]

 

[QF029]

Also a term used elsewhere but 24 hr has taken over.

I lived in the US relatively recently and checked with a couple of friends there over the weekend. I don't know a single American who doesn't refer to it as military time.

 

[SYD]

I lived in the US relatively recently and checked with a couple of friends there over the weekend. I don't know a single American who doesn't refer to it as military time.

I was referring to “elsewhere” (outside the US). Definitely “military time” still used there.

 

[Forg]

Of all first-world countries, the US probably has the highest proportion of it's populace in the military ... and the military probably can't afford the stupidity of doing something inefficiently Old Skool just-because. So a sensible measure is probably "military style" to a heap of people.
Like measuring distance in imperial foot-skarlings, they don't do that sillyness, they use kilometres like the enlightened world.

 

[NM]

I like to have some fun when in the USA and regularly tell my American friends, colleagues or people I meet in random places (like department stores) about how American's get so confused when the travel to Australia because we use metric time down here - 100 seconds in a minute, 100 mins in an hour, and 10 hours in a half-day. Then I show them my dual-time watch (analogue for American time and digital insert for Metric time) and they are amazed that I can convert quickly between the two time systems.

 

[tdimdad]

This is infinitely worse in the Netherlands, where "10 past half seventeen" means 4:40 pm. Try working that out after imbibing!

Whatcha saying? That's so easy: "Five past half two" = 1.35 or 13.35, and "five to quarter past two" = 2.10 or 14.10. Similarly, it's half of seventeen...

But what does "half two" mean in Australia, please? After all these years here I'm still confused. It seems that some people refer to 1:30 and some to 2:30 with it.