Do you use 24 or 12 hour time on your clock?

Sheeps

Do you use 24 or 12 hour time on your clock?

Atlantic Dawn

Always 24 hour time if given the option.

theteal

The pope wouldn't ask me that.



24, you?

Sheeps

I used 24 hours and I judge people who choose to use 12 hour clocks, as everyone should.

1hnr79jr65

24hr for accuracy

Gregor Samsa

12 hour clock is like suddenly calling Thursday "Monday", but not starting a new week.

Although weirdly, even though all my clocks/watches are 24 hour, if I'm telling someone the time, I always give it in 12 hour format

Quantum Erasure

Metric time

cdeb

12 hours obviously.

You don't go around saying it's a quarter to 20; why should your clock say it?

TuringBot47

Sheeps wrote: »

Do you use 24 or 12 hour time on your clock?

Clearly there's too many hours in the day that give you the opportunity to post that.

.anon.

cdeb wrote: »

12 hours obviously.

You don't go around saying it's a quarter to 20; why should your clock say it?

Nineteen hundred and forty-five hours.

cdeb

.anon. wrote: »

Nineteen hundred and forty-five hours.

Nobody says that either though.

Ubbquittious

cdeb wrote: »

Nobody says that either though.

US Navy bigshots say it though

cdeb

Good enough reason for the rest of us not to bother.

Church on Tuesday

Analogue watch for personal use, digital for devices.

I don't like this craic of using your phone to check the time, a man should have a watch on him IMO.

punisher5112

24 so I don't wake up at 6 pm thinking it 6 am and so on....

Sheeps

TuringBot47 wrote: »

Clearly there's too many hours in the day that give you the opportunity to post that.

Sweeeeeeeet burn bro...

Sheeps

I'm very relieved to see the poll results reflect that people on this website are normal.

Wibbs

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Analogue watch for personal use, digital for devices.

I don't like this craic of using your phone to check the time, a man should have a watch on him IMO.

Damned right Sir. Previously exclusively for the laydees, the wristwatch for men was invented in the Boer war in the late 19th century and really took off during WW1 because a pocket watch was too cumbersome and slow to pull out of a pocket. I feel the same about phones.

One of my WW1 watches from 1916 I was wearing today as it happens.



With integral flip up anti shrapnel guard(like that would be about as much use as a chocolate fireguard... :eek: )

So 12 hour all the way. Well... on my 'puter and phone it's in 24 hour format. Though I rarely look at them tbh. I find digital time slower to read for me and I have to think about it, cos dumb and why I got into the old watches as a kid. Before they became "collectibles".



*shilling for the watches forum*

touts

I'm under that age of 80 so I use the 24 hour clock.

Wibbs

touts wrote: »

I'm under that age of 80 so I use the 24 hour clock.

Funny the only people I've known to use the 24 clock are either computer/engineering geeks, or military folks and the like(or those who want to be).

Many years back I had two old mechanical 24 hour watches, one a pocket chronometer, the other a 60's pilot's watch. Proper 24 hour now, like the hour hand moved half as fast and 12 was at the 6 o'clock position.

EG:





And by god do I regret selling them..

Pocaide

12 hour as my watch only goes up to 12

Mr_Muffin

12. Otherwise I'd also have to carry a calculator around with me to calculate the time using 24.

the_syco

24 hour. Mainly as I used to work in a pub/nightclub for a bit, finishing at 4am, and used blackout curtains; always good to know which 6 o'clock it is when I wake.

Bob Harris

When people say they 'use' the 24 hour clock...if asked the time at 7pm do you answer saying it's
nineteen hundred hours?

Akrasia

I only use Binary watches myself

Sheeps

Bob Harris wrote: »

When people say they 'use' the 24 hour clock...if asked the time at 7pm do you answer saying it's
nineteen hundred hours?

I would USE the 24 hour clock I poses to interpret the time, and GIVE them the time in a 12 hour format because honestly if they're incapable of iterating through life without being able to tell the time with out asking a stranger, they're probably a mouth breathing imbecile who needs a 12 hour clock.

Sheeps

Wibbs wrote: »

Damned right Sir. Previously exclusively for the laydees, the wristwatch for men was invented in the Boer war in the late 19th century and really took off during WW1 because a pocket watch was too cumbersome and slow to pull out of a pocket. I feel the same about phones.

One of my WW1 watches from 1916 I was wearing today as it happens.



With integral flip up anti shrapnel guard(like that would be about as much use as a chocolate fireguard... :eek: )

So 12 hour all the way. Well... on my 'puter and phone it's in 24 hour format. Though I rarely look at them tbh. I find digital time slower to read for me and I have to think about it, cos dumb and why I got into the old watches as a kid. Before they became "collectibles".



*shilling for the watches forum*

Lets face it, if you own a watch like this, you convert that 12 hour nonsense into 24 hours before you do anything with the information in your brain.

Akrasia

BTW if you haven’t seen Dave Allen’s bit about teaching kids how to read the time....

An Ri rua

Sheeps wrote: »

I used 24 hours and I judge people who choose to use 12 hour clocks, as everyone should.

Go way outta that, you're probably using litres and kilometres as well...

An Ri rua

Sheeps wrote: »

I would USE the 24 hour clock I poses to interpret the time, and GIVE them the time in a 12 hour format because honestly if they're incapable of iterating through life without being able to tell the time with out asking a stranger, they're probably a mouth breathing imbecile who needs a 12 hour clock.

So I guess you have 52 sets of names for days of the week too? In case you get mixed up? What? Monday? Again?? Say it isn't so. Let's call it OneDay.....
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Charles Babbage

I'm a 24 hours a day man.