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Colloquially, lot of places use 12h - it's always "we're going to the restaurant at 8", never "at 20" or "at 20:00", at least in the countries I've lived or vis
by smsm42 4y ago
Colloquially, lot of places use 12h - it's always "we're going to the restaurant at 8", never "at 20" or "at 20:00", at least in the countries I've lived or visited. But officially it's still 24h - which may be more confusing or less confusing, depending on your point of view.
And times (with timezones, and leap seconds, and DST, and so on) add another level of fun to it.
- Symbiote 4y agoThere are certainly countries where a translation of "16 o'clock" or similar is the default way to say that time. France is one I'm familiar with. In Britain, people reading out an important time presented in 24h format (like when discussing booking a flight) will usually read it out as fifteen thirty etc.