12-hour time or 24-hour time?

[Octavia Heartstrings 28,412]

Which system of time do you prefer to use: 12-hour time (12:00 AM - 11:59 PM) or 24-hour time (00:00 - 23:59)?

I prefer 24-hour time, absolutely no contest. Since each hour of the day has its own unique number, there's never any AM/PM ambiguity. 12-hour time is just silly to me, honestly.

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12 hour time is just cringy and stupid. 24 hour time should be everywhere. It makes absolutely no sense to go from 12 to 1, its just really stupid. It offends me on a spiritual level.

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6 minutes ago, Califorum said:

12 hour time is just cringy and stupid. 24 hour time should be everywhere. It makes absolutely no sense to go from 12 to 1, its just really stupid. It offends me on a spiritual level.

Amen 100%, my friend.

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Moments ago, LyraLover said:

Amen 100%, my friend.

I would love to see 12 hour time abolished. 

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Moments ago, Califorum said:

I would love to see 12 hour time abolished. 

If I ever become president, that will be the first law I pass!

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1 minute ago, LyraLover said:

If I ever become president, that will be the first law I pass!

I'd also switch out the 12 month calendar system which is extremely annoying and antiquated. I'd start the first of the year on the longest day of the year.

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7 minutes ago, Califorum said:

I'd also switch out the 12 month calendar system which is extremely annoying and antiquated. I'd start the first of the year on the longest day of the year.

Ooh, I really like that calendar! Especially the month names.

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1 minute ago, LyraLover said:

Ooh, I really like that calendar! Especially the month names.

Personally I think the way we keep track of time with a 7 day week, 12 hour system, and our messed up calendar is quite repulsive. It needs to change.

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Moments ago, Califorum said:

Personally I think the way we keep track of time with a 7 day week, 12 hour system, and our messed up calendar is quite repulsive. It needs to change.

It really is. I much prefer the French Revolutionary calendar.

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1 minute ago, LyraLover said:

It really is. I much prefer the French Revolutionary calendar.

Same here! Oh, and I have something to show you that I have. 

[ExplosionMare 18,007]

I tried to learn the 24 hour time and I failed  For now I prefer a 12 hour clock

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1 minute ago, ExplosionMare said:

I tried to learn the 24 hour time and I failed  For now I prefer a 12 hour clock

Each hour just counts up from 12, 1:00 in the afternoon is 13:00 and so on.

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Moments ago, Califorum said:

Each hour just counts up from 12, 1:00 in the afternoon is 13:00 and so on.

I’m pretty bad at math so that’s why I never understood it

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1 minute ago, ExplosionMare said:

I’m pretty bad at math so that’s why I never understood it

Haha, same. I can't add single digits in my head

[Narcissus 352]

24 hour time makes more sense obviously. But I've been brought up on 12 hour time my whole life so it's more natural for me. So yeah, it's gonna be 12 hour for me, even if it is dumb.  

[Northern Star 1,023]

Tried 24, that didn't work, so 12 for us. Also I don't understand half the the points "for" 24...

And to the French metric calendar, didn't they have metric time too? Based on 10 or 100 or something?

[Astralshy 23,573]

I can work with both systems, but I prefer the 0 - 24 h system and it's the only system used where I live. So I was taught this system as a child and it's my native way of reading time. So I guess I'm biased here, but I'd also agree that this system makes more sense.

 

[Fluttershutter 2,119]

Well a day is 24 hours either way. I think the only reason for the 12 hour thing is that it's easier to read analog clocks. Now that they're basically all digital it's just a holdover.

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On 2021-04-04 at 3:09 PM, Califorum said:

I'd also switch out the 12 month calendar system which is extremely annoying and antiquated. I'd start the first of the year on the longest day of the year.

I've looked into stuff like that. The main argument against it is that it's hard to divide the year into thirds and quarters.

[Sunamena 426]

24:00 is more clear to me.

I also say 13 hour 30 or 13 hour 45 or 14 hour 15 instead of the fancy confusing ways to say it which makes me be there too late or too early.

[ZiggWheelsManning 7,370]

I prefer 24-hour time  But the cold way of society won't allow it  

[Tom Gallagher 33,521]

I've always preferred twenty-four.  Trouble is, barely any of my family know how it works! 

[Vefka 1,499]

Since english on my phone forces 12-hours system clock I was forced to learn it, but I've never been able to understand it

I always mix up AM and PM and the 12-1 transition really confuses me. 12AM, is it morning or night? If it's night, did the day ended or it ends at 1AM. So confusing. In 24-hours system everything is logical (and after some time you will automatically associate 11am with 11, 14:00 with 2pm and so on)

And the most important, 00:00 means new day arrived. Easy and clear

[Midnight Danny 9,023]

For me it is indifferent,  but sometimes l do prefer the 24-hour format time. 

[Venomous 18,813]

When I was in high school, I took part in the AFJROTC program all 4 years. It was in that program did we learn how to read 24 hour time and ever since then, that is the format I have used on all of my devices.