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Took me a while to realize 9-17 was 9-5 on a 24 hour clock.
by bthornbury 12y ago
Took me a while to realize 9-17 was 9-5 on a 24 hour clock.
- beobab 12y agoIt took you to point it out to me. :)
- StavrosK 12y agoHuh, I didn't realize 24 hour time was so scarcely used in the US.
- icebraining 12y agoWe use the 24 hour time here in Portugal (in every digital clock, written information, etc), but it also threw me off. 9-5 is a common linguistic expression, while 9-17 reads "nine to seventeen" to me. Maybe "9-17h" would work better.
- wastedhours 12y agoIn the UK it's not that it's used scarcely, it's that the expression is usually written as "9-5".
- StavrosK 12y agoHmm, yeah... In Greece we use it interchangeably with the 12-hour time, but whenever my brain sees 17, it just translates it to "5", so the expression made sense. Then again, I skipped that part in the article and only saw it in the comments, so I may have already been primed for it.
- ToastyMallows 12y agoAs someone from the US that uses a 24 hour clock everywhere, I've gotten many questions and weird looks.
- arc_of_descent 12y agoI thought the OP was rating himself 9 on a scale of 1-17!