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27:00?
by robotmlg 8y ago
27:00?
- AdamJacobMuller 8y agoA weird way of writing 3AM, I presume.
- zdw 8y agoFairly common in the UK and Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock#Times_after_24:00 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock#Times_after_24:0...
- toyg 8y ago16 years in the UK, never seen it used anywhere.
- SamColes 8y ago31 years native. That's the first time I've ever seen someone write 27:00...
- NeedMoreTea 8y ago"used occasionally in some special contexts such as broadcast TV" is not what I'd call fairly common! Never encountered it in half a century here, just military time "0 3 hundred" as used on the shipping forecast, or simply 3am.
- foobarbazetc 8y agoIt’s extremely common in Japan. Literally everywhere. Never seen it in the UK.
- agurk 8y agoI know it's common for commercial properties (bars, restaurants) to use it in Japan to show when they stay open past midnight. I remember being intrigued the first time I saw opening times described like that, and never seen it elsewhere in the world (including the UK).
- davchana 8y agoAtleast i have never written or seen anything greater than 24:00 or 00:00 in time related information here in Asia; India & Middle East, working with British & Asian teammates. I am an Indian, by birth, age in 30-35 year range. Theo only time I have come across is when I had to count the hours between two times in an excel sheet & found that by default MS Excel formats 25:00 hours to 01:00 & I need to use [hh]:mm to bring it to 25:00
- DonaldFisk 8y agoNot according to the article you quoted: "... not commonly used ... they have been used occasionally in some special contexts in the UK ..." I've lived in Scotland and England most of my life, and can't recall ever having seen it and am now curious about what these special contexts are.
- jacobolus 8y ago16:30 to 27:00 is the same as (–8):30 to 03:00
- amelius 8y agoFor anyone with a clock app out there, this would be a nice april-fools prank you could push to your users.
- kbrosnan 8y agoI ran into it in Japan. Found it an interesting way to be clear that the restaurant was open past midnight.