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I would like to officially register my annoyance with the concept of 12-hr time notations (i.e., 4:24 instead of 16:24). It makes looking through the TV guide a right pain. Stupid cultural differences.

Okay, either my e-mail is playing silly buggers with me, or I hallucinated an e-mail from my dad earlier this week. *blinks*

Apparently there's every chance that some manner of piping under my bathroom floor is leaking, and that fixing this will require my bath (and possibly toilet (!) to be ripped out at some point this week. I AM DISPLEASED! Woe.

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I also hate 12hr clock. I don't know why we can't just use 24 all the time.

That is all :)

It makes so much more sense! When I first got here, store opening hours used to confuse the hell out of me. ("Wait, they're open from 8 in the morning till ... six in the morning? The hell?")

Eeek. That sucks. *hug

(Look, YA cuteness!)

Eeeecute!

Case of missing e-mail: STILL NOT SOLVED! WTF, internet?

Socute!

*pokes the internet in the head*

I also hate 12hr clock. I don't know why we can't just use 24 all the time.

That is all :)

Oooh, random double comment!

I've gotten to like 24-hour time a lot since I've moved here, and I agree, it's much easier to understand.

It is! I know it can be confusing if you're just starting to use it, but once you get to the point where you don't even have to do the maths anymore, it's so much more logical!

I think I am one stage further down the path of Time Anal Retentiveness. Not only do I freak out over people who find 24hr clock "too difficult" (what, can't you count that far?), but I snarl about the 12pm / 12am thing too. Let's see, you mean there is a 12 that is before 12 and a 12 that is after 12? What the freaking f***? For heaven's sake, if you can't manage the concept of 00.00 and 12.00, can't you cope with midnight/midday?
Now I'm going to have to pour myself a drink to calm down.

Oh, and BTW, as a person who is entering her 3rd week of living in a house with no bathroom at all, only a toilet (in the kitchen) and one cold water tap, I take your "woe" and raise you one.

The 12am/12pm thing drives me nuts! I can never remember which is supposed to be which. Argh!

Okay, you win. Damn you. :P

and me, the 24 hour one confuses me. Granted, I am mathematically challenged at the BEST of times. But I'll see something listed as 22:00 and think "ok, subtract 2" and THEN I get more confused because it's not even my time zone so it's "Ok, pacific time - so it's 22 -2 +2 so it's 22 which is 10"

*headdesk*

Heee! I dunno, I guess it's because I'm used to 24-hr notation, and my first thought when I see "8" listed as a time is to think "8 in the morning" and only then notice the am/pm tag.

One of these days, I'm going to do a long post about subtle cultural differences I never anticipated when moving here.

I first noticed 24 hour time when I was in Europe in the 80s. And that got me confused for entirely OTHER reasons - I'd be trying to figure out when to call my mom back home, and have to figure out what time it was there, etc yadda yadda.

I am so so so math impaired!

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