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This is incorrect. The US is hardly the only country where people consider Sunday to be the first day of the week. Anyone with some understanding of the history
by mcv 4y ago
This is incorrect. The US is hardly the only country where people consider Sunday to be the first day of the week. Anyone with some understanding of the history of our weekdays does so, and that historical understanding is not limited to Americans.
It's also not true that the US is the only country to use 12h time; many countries do. Including mine. If you need to write time without ambiguity, you use the 24h format, but in everyday use and in cases where context makes it clear what you mean, people use the 12h format.
- psnehanshu 4y agoYeah I agree. 12h time is the natural consequence of using analog clocks where one rotation of the hour hand on the dial represents 12 hours. But I guess it won't be hard to represent 24h if the speed of the hour hand is halved, although I have never seen such clocks.
- em-bee 4y agoyou can find them in novelty shops
- psnehanshu 4y agoIdk what "novelty shop" is.
- em-bee 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_item https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_item
- midasuni 4y agoWhat country is that? I’ve only really seen 12h time in America and it’s colonies.
- weberer 4y agoIn Finland its common to use 12h time in conversation. Digital clocks are 24 hours, but many people still use analog clocks, which are always 12 hours. And for what its worth, the name for Wednesday, keskiviiko, means midweek.
- midasuni 4y agoGerman “mittwoch” for midweek too. We might say beers at 5, but I haven’t seen “5.00p” rather than 1700 in written form for decades outside of the US
- mcv 4y agoNetherland. I suspect it's pretty common across continental Europe.