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.....
ðŸ˜

Charles Babbage

I'm a 24 hours a day man.

Wibbs

Sheeps wrote: »

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.

Nope, I don't. I "convert" into am/pm in my head. So say 7 o'clock PM and at no point would I think 1900 hours unless it was required for some reason. Which it almost never is. Like I said I've noted 24 hour time is mostly the preserve of nerds and military type people, the rest of us are 12 hours all the way. Though a rare occurrence today as we've never so been surrounded or bounded by the time, if someone does ask for the time the vast majority would reply with the 12 hour. That a Boards survey heavily leans towards a preference for the 24 is more a reflection of the demographic involved.

Never mind that the 24 hour clock is inherited from the Babylonians so a tad "old fashioned" already and only the most nerdy oddballs among us would suggest going decimal, even though it would make some good sense in a number of ways.. After the French Revolution the French tried it(tried to do the same with the calendar months too, though retained twelve months for some reason).



Didn't catch on... If you find a clock or pocket watch with a 10 hour dial in a box in the attic. Ker-ching!

Ultrflat

If I'm sending an email I use 24 hours or if its in a written form. if some one asks me what time it is I'll refer to it by the the normal 1 to 12.

Jakey Rolling

Akrasia wrote: »

I only use Binary watches myself

So that's presumably reads ass 6:18 - but is that am or pm?
Hard to tell as the hours can only go up as far as 15 and there's no am/pm indicator. For the sake of 1 extra LED, cheapskates!

I use 24 hours, and I use my phone to check the time. Much like I don't carry a calculator around with me, I wouldn't wear a watch anymore, unless it was to dress up to go somewhere, at which point the one single watch I have in my wardrobe, possibly with a dead battery by now, will be slung onto my wrist to make it look like I made an effort to get dressed.

paw patrol

cdeb wrote: »

12 hours obviously.

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

actually I do.
Wouldn't say quarter to 20 - I'd say 19:45

biko

24h digital watch

Ger Roe

My father was in the army and he always used 24hr format and encouraged us to do it. He always said that stating the time in 24hrs took away any possible chance of confusion over if you were referring to AM or PM. I have always used it, although I have had strange looks from people on occasion.

This thread reminds me of an old 24hr military joke.

An old retired soldier was at the Doctor for a check up and was asked if he was a drinker. Oh no! said the soldier, I used to be, but I have given it up now. I Haven't had a drink since nineteen twenty.

Goodness, said that doctor, that's a long time ago. You're telling me, said the soldier, looking at his watch.... it's nearly twenty one thirty hours now!

Gregor Samsa

Wibbs wrote: »

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.

I'm the opposite. I never properly learned to read an analogue clock. I put it down to getting a present of a digital watch for my Communion, and then being lazy. Maybe I was sick that day at school too or something. I understand the theory of how to do it, but i'd have to go "Big hand is pointing to this, little hand is pointing to that. Wait, which one is the hours again?" in my head to figure it out, so I can't just glance at an analogue clock and tell the time.

I don't have any analogue clocks in my house, and if I don't look at my (smart) watch or my phone, I usually get the time off the digital display on my oven or microwave, or the car. I can't actually remember the last time I saw an analogue clock face.

Read/write 24, say 12

Invidious

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

I don't have any analogue clocks in my house, and if I don't look at my (smart) watch or my phone, I usually get the time off the digital display on my oven or microwave, or the car. I can't actually remember the last time I saw an analogue clock face.

At least in the US, many young people can no longer read an analogue clock. Check out this Jimmy Kimmel clip.

https://youtu.be/ZvLKbhXqEKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvLKbhXqEKw

Ted_YNWA

Wibbs wrote: »

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:

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9d/33/44/9d3344d3312662977b98c0d35f7fcaf5--awesome-watches-nice-watches.jpg



And by god do I regret selling them..

That looks great for the uniqueness of it, but would be impossible to get used to on a daily basis. Easy to glance at an analogue 12hr & know the time straight away.

murpho999

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

That looks great for the uniqueness of it, but would be impossible to get used to on a daily basis. Easy to glance at an analogue 12hr & know the time straight away.

How is that difficult?

I can see straight away that it's 2130 but I would say half nine if asked.

Ted_YNWA

murpho999 wrote: »

How is that difficult?

I can see straight away that it's 2130 but I would say half nine if asked.

It takes a bit more 'reading' of the face than I normally would do.

Dravokivich

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?

19 O'Clock.

Church on Tuesday

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*

That's a great watch.

A good wristwatch can make an outfit too, doesn't really have to be mad expensive either although I wouldn't bother with cheap drop ship type fashion watches because they are a cod and retail for quite a lot all things considered.

I'd be lost without a watch on me, don't feel comfortable without one if I'm out and about.

quickbeam

My sports watch has the option of digital or analog and I choose analog so I read the time in 12-Hour based on that.

My other devices (PC, alarm clock, phone, etc) are in 24-Hour.

If I was writing the time (sending an email or text or something), it'd generally depend on my mood whather I'd say 6pm or 18:00 - probably about 50/50 which I choose.

Speaking I don't think I'd ever use 24-Hour.

Ger Roe

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?

If someone actually asks me the time, then we are both there in the correct time period (AM or PM) so I would just say it is seven o'clock. If I am making an future arrangement, or giving details of an appointment, I would use 24hr format, because then there may be a possibility of confusion.

It could be unlikely that someone would misunderstand the required time, but as my dad used to say, why take the risk? - people have missed taking flights over such confusion.

the_syco

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?

Depends on who is asking. Usually I give the 12 hour clock.

Haven't work a watch for nearly a decade. Used to always have an digital one. Have a phone that will tell me the time. May get a FitBit one, as it'll count my steps as well as giving me the time.

In emails, I usually give the time on a 24 hour format.

peasant

Anything digital has to be 24 h.

Appointments (via mail or text) are 24 h too, verbal announcements are 12 h.

And as far as the watch is concerned, don't be stingy and just invest in an extra hand and you've got both covered

Montage of Feck

...and the clocks were striking thirteen.