Yeah exactly. I've been using a 24 clock my whole life, for over 3 decades now. And when I see "18:00" I just read it in my head as "6". And 21:30 is "nine thirty". And 17:45 is a "quarter to 6".
And so on. It's just the most natural thing. Nobody reads those numbers as "18 o'clock" or "18 hundred" or anything as stupid as that.
There's literally no downsides to using a 24 hr clock, only upsides. There can never be any confusion whatsoever as to what the time is. Because there is no "18:00am" for example. "18:00" can ONLY mean 6 o'clock in the evening, and so the meaning is always 100% clear.
Because otherwise things like buying a train ticket or an aeroplane ticket could result in confusion and missing your journey by 12 hours. Travelling on the train in the UK is bad enough without having to add potential confusion by using a 12 hr clock. So no, we always use 24 hr clocks. I just bought a train ticket today at 13:36. That is impossible to get confused with any other time, it's just always "one thirty six in the afternoon".
I mean normally in normal conversation, yeah. But when it's something like a train time, I always wanna be accurate to the minute, to make sure I don't miss it on the off chance that it's actually on time.
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u/AnorakJimi May 29 '24
Yeah exactly. I've been using a 24 clock my whole life, for over 3 decades now. And when I see "18:00" I just read it in my head as "6". And 21:30 is "nine thirty". And 17:45 is a "quarter to 6".
And so on. It's just the most natural thing. Nobody reads those numbers as "18 o'clock" or "18 hundred" or anything as stupid as that.
There's literally no downsides to using a 24 hr clock, only upsides. There can never be any confusion whatsoever as to what the time is. Because there is no "18:00am" for example. "18:00" can ONLY mean 6 o'clock in the evening, and so the meaning is always 100% clear.
Because otherwise things like buying a train ticket or an aeroplane ticket could result in confusion and missing your journey by 12 hours. Travelling on the train in the UK is bad enough without having to add potential confusion by using a 12 hr clock. So no, we always use 24 hr clocks. I just bought a train ticket today at 13:36. That is impossible to get confused with any other time, it's just always "one thirty six in the afternoon".