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Title: Do youropean counties use 24 hr clock mode besides the military?
Post by: 1K3 on June 14, 2005, 11:04:21 AM: ...?

For example if its 12:00 AM in the US, it's 00:00 in euro format.
Title: Do youropean counties use 24 hr clock mode besides the military?
Post by: Morpheus on June 14, 2005, 11:06:17 AM: a tard will be along shortly to correct your spelling.
Title: Do youropean counties use 24 hr clock mode besides the military?
Post by: 1K3 on June 14, 2005, 11:08:35 AM: oops typo:o
Title: Do youropean counties use 24 hr clock mode besides the military?
Post by: Angry Samoan on June 14, 2005, 11:10:23 AM: :rofl
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Post by: Kegger26 on June 14, 2005, 11:11:43 AM: LMAO..yeah we have a new O club. It is called Gerneral Discussion.
Title: Do youropean counties use 24 hr clock mode besides the military?
Post by: JB73 on June 14, 2005, 11:12:26 AM: don't they all live in grenitch mean time?
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Post by: Panzzer on June 14, 2005, 11:15:42 AM: No, we don't all live in Greenwitch mean time. But yes, we do use 24hr clock. It's 19:16 here now.
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Post by: Skydancer on June 14, 2005, 11:17:05 AM: Over the Channel they seem to use 24hr Clock. Here in UK we generaly use Am Pm Time. We like to do things our own way. Like driving on the correct side of the road. It enables us right handers to wield our swords at oncoming attackers on the other side of the road or something like that.
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Post by: Nilsen on June 14, 2005, 11:20:18 AM: 24 hour clock here too... no am/fm time here. We do have FM/AM radio if that helps any.

Anyways.. its 18:17 here now but we say six seventeen, not eighteen seventeen. You would say seventeen past six tho.. but we dont do that either.
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Post by: Skydancer on June 14, 2005, 11:22:51 AM: 5:17pm here :D
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Post by: Nilsen on June 14, 2005, 12:06:13 PM: you islanders are bonkers!

anywho.. how do you get water and stuff out there? pipelines?

:p
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Post by: cpxxx on June 14, 2005, 12:17:37 PM: Yes it's more commonly used in Europe and isn't called military time. But the average person in street still goes am pm. It's just after 6 right now.

One funny thing is people in Britain or Ireland are asked the time and it's for example 4:30. We say it's half four. I said that to an American once when he asked the time. He thought I was being a smart alec and said 'Do you mean it's 2pm?'
Title: Do youropean counties use 24 hr clock mode besides the military?
Post by: ghi on June 14, 2005, 12:22:13 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Morpheus
a tard will be along shortly to correct your spelling.

:rofl :rofl :rofl
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Post by: Boroda on June 14, 2005, 12:30:45 PM: Officially all times are in 24 hours format here in Russia, but people usually say simply "half four" or something similar.

I live on 24 hour time format so I usually say "sixteen thirty" :)

When I was in the US we were quite surprised when on girl's electronic watch was called a "military" by one of our hosts. He sounded like he thought she was from KGB or something :D
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Post by: Seeker on June 14, 2005, 12:38:37 PM: Here in Denmark it's about half and half between the two diferent notations.

What catches me out a lot more is that "half three" means half _to_ the hour; not past it.
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Post by: Saintaw on June 14, 2005, 12:41:33 PM: I get up when the chicken start getting noisy... I thought this was the norm here :confused:
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Post by: Gh0stFT on June 14, 2005, 12:45:10 PM: we in germany work 25h a day, maybe thats the difference ? ;)
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Post by: Kev367th on June 14, 2005, 12:54:39 PM: Like 5.15 - Quarter past five.
5.45 - Quarter to 6

So many different ways-
In the US heard 6.40pm call 40 minutes past 6, in the UK its 20 to 7.
Title: Do youropean counties use 24 hr clock mode besides the military?
Post by: Boroda on June 14, 2005, 01:01:42 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Saintaw
I get up when the chicken start getting noisy... I thought this was the norm here :confused:

I bet you never lived near a church, church bells 20m from your window means no staying on bed late on Sundays...
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Post by: Seeker on June 14, 2005, 01:18:15 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Kev367th
Like 5.15 - Quarter past five.
5.45 - Quarter to 6

So many different ways-
In the US heard 6.40pm call 40 minutes past 6, in the UK its 20 to 7.

In Dutch it would be "ten over half seven"
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Post by: RTR on June 14, 2005, 01:29:16 PM: You'll have to excuse Nilsen.

It's eleventeen seventy two o'clock in the evening over there, so he'll be a little out of sorts.
:D

RTR
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Post by: Nilsen on June 14, 2005, 01:31:55 PM: Quote
Originally posted by RTR
You'll have to excuse Nilsen.

It's eleventeen seventy two o'clock in the evening over there, so he'll be a little out of sorts.
:D

RTR

thats what we call half-bottle.

see? there you yanks go and make things difficult again when its real easy :)
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Post by: Saintaw on June 14, 2005, 02:23:53 PM: LMAO RTR :D
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Post by: 1K3 on June 14, 2005, 02:51:55 PM: hmmm most of us americans always associate 24 hr clock format with the military...

(drill sargeant: supper starts at twenty-thirty!)
Title: Do youropean counties use 24 hr clock mode besides the military?
Post by: Overlag on June 14, 2005, 02:59:14 PM: i think we use 24hour clock because europe is so used to being at war with each other theres no point switching it back.......... ;)

i prefer 24hour clock myself so whenever i have the option to use 24hour (ie on phone or pc) i do so

saying that i do SAY it in a 12hour clock way.
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Post by: SELECTOR on June 14, 2005, 03:18:06 PM: my clock has 25 hours a day and 26 on sundays... ahhh sundays arse scratching day
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Post by: Howitzer on June 14, 2005, 03:58:05 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Morpheus
a tard will be along shortly to correct your spelling.

You completely ruined this for me morph. Here I am, on a lonely day at the office, flipping through the boards and I see this blatant mispelling, and while the link is opening I'm thinking of approx. 10 or more ways to respond and make light of this error in a funny way, and look what you did!!! You completely ruined it by being the first person to post and calling anyone who corrects him a tard. Now I have to save my snappy comebacks for another thread with an obvious mispelling.

SHAME!!!! :D
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Post by: straffo on June 14, 2005, 04:24:13 PM: Vhat ? spellinge is quitte corect
lok at my sig !

Fot the reccord the military thing give some strange result in French :
19:15 supposed to be said either
dix neuf heure quinze
or
sept heure et quart

But it's frequent to have mix à la :
dix neuf heure et quart
or
sept heure quinze

I would hate having to learn french :D
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Post by: paulieb on June 14, 2005, 04:32:00 PM: IN Canada we have too many time zones to make sense of, including some places that don't use Daylight Savings Time.
Title: Do youropean counties use 24 hr clock mode besides the military?
Post by: airguard on June 14, 2005, 04:32:56 PM: Its much easyer with saying them time is 19.43 than mixing it up with morning or day with pm/am 7.43.
the time is clock clear its is either 7.43 or 19.43 :D no need to think at all. hehe.
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Post by: Nilsen on June 14, 2005, 04:38:50 PM: Makes it alot easyer to be a drunk when you dont have to wonder about witch of the six o'clocks it is.

When the sun never sets here in the summer and almost never gets up in the winter its even more handy.
Title: Do youropean counties use 24 hr clock mode besides the military?
Post by: bozon on June 15, 2005, 01:52:39 AM: People just say 8 o'clock since it's quite obvious to the normal person if it's day or night.

military use 24h clock since the top brass hiding in the command bunkers and don't see the light of day, can't tell if it's morning or evening.
So do radar controllers...

It's always 8/8 Neons and CAVOK weather in the bunker.

Bozon
Title: Do youropean counties use 24 hr clock mode besides the military?
Post by: Pooh21 on June 15, 2005, 03:50:24 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Nilsen
Makes it alot easyer to be a drunk when you dont have to wonder about witch of the six o'clocks it is.

When the sun never sets here in the summer and almost never gets up in the winter its even more handy.

:rofl :rofl :rofl
Title: Do youropean counties use 24 hr clock mode besides the military?
Post by: AVRO1 on June 15, 2005, 07:33:33 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Skydancer Like driving on the correct side of the road. It enables us right handers to wield our swords at oncoming attackers on the other side of the road or something like that.

Yes riding on a horse meeting someone coming from the opposite direction you could cover him with a weapon without the horse getting in your way.

But continental europe used more carts driven by animals which require whips to drive. Driving on your side of the road would be a very bad idea since about 90% of the population is right handed.