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Lockdown in Italy is a concept that is difficult to enforce. And it's probably very different to what it means in China or even just South Korea or any other mo
by idiocratic 7y ago
Lockdown in Italy is a concept that is difficult to enforce. And it's probably very different to what it means in China or even just South Korea or any other more organised and centrally governed country in Europe like France.
But in essence:
Schools are closed until next month.
People can still move around freely for work reasons, and in general people still work in offices.
Bars and restaurants close after 18pm.
Shops are closed only on weekends.
People over 65 have free deliveries from most supermarkets, but very few use them.
Big groups of people are not allowed outside public places.
The social structure in Italy is still very much based on families, so people will remain with their close relatives and go out for a walk around home.
- greggyb 7y agoCompletely random and off-topic. I'm in the US and used to 12-hour time. I personally prefer 24-hour time, and am comfortable with 18:00 or similar for a time indicator. I don't know that I've ever seen a 24-hour time with am/pm attached to it. Is this common?
- J_cst 7y agonot at all, it just seems a misprint / little error
- giuscri 7y agoNo, at least not in Italy. In fact, I don't think it makes any sense.
- HelloNurse 7y agoJust a bit of redundancy, to compensate USA Covid-19 tests.
- idiocratic 7y agoYou're right. My mistake.
- technothrasher 7y agoTo feed off your random comment, I live in the US as well but switched all of my clocks (that I was able to) over to 24-hour time a few years ago. It just makes more sense to me. But everybody around me thinks I'm some sort of weirdo for it.
- Marsymars 7y agoI've got a handful of software (Skype, my ereader) that don't have 24h time options. Super annoying, especially for software where all they'd have to do is use the OS time convention.
- ygra 7y agoI've found that a lot of software that moved to Electron or similar solutions has trouble adhering to OS settings. Heck, even Chrome ignores my date format in the history tag. That's what you get with a technology that's not really supposed to interact with the user's OS settings much.
- cowmoo728 7y agoI switched everything I could to C, km, 24 hour time, and YYYY-MM-DD. US social conventions around measurements are just obtuse.
- jfkebwjsbx 7y agoThank you.
- pnako 7y agoHow else would you distinguish e.g. 18 in the morning or 18 in the evening if you can't say 18am and 18pm.
- soneil 7y agoI say 6pm but write 18:00. I imagine things like that can very easily lead to awkward translations. I've found countries (Slovakia springs to mind) that would say "a quarter of 8" for 7:15 (think "7 hours and a quarter of the eighth hour") and "half 8" for 7:30. Time can translate in rather interesting ways.
- bitcurious 7y agoIn Russian at least, a closer translation would be “half of 8th” because it means something like “half of the 8th hour [has passed].”
- buboard 7y agoit's a gesture for the americans probably. you start typing 18:00 and realize that US people will want to know if it's pm.