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Posted by Rik Wasmus on October 17, 2007, 4:18 am
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:08:46 +0200, Stephan Bird
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:38:19 -0400 in 5nklpsFia0ceU1@mid.individual.net,
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>> tatata9999@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What time zones tend to use 24 hours time format? Googling hasn't
>>> been able to answer the question.
>>
>> Time format preferences, like date and currency format preferences, are
>> generally national in scope, so you'd have to inquire what *countries*
>> tend to use 24-hour format. There isn't any reason why the various
>> peoples who happen to live in one time zone would share a time format.
>
> Or even, people who live in the same country. Surely this is very much an
> individual thing. I, for instance have 24hr clock set up on my PC / watch
> etc, yet the radio broadcasts for instance a show billed as 11(am)-1(pm)
> -
> very very rare (to the extent that I can't remember it) that it's billed
> as 11-13. Or late evening news is almost always at 10, whereas listing
> magazines or newspapers use 24hr format....
Then again, weird difference between written & spoken language. A 24 hour
clock is pretty standard in print here, AM/PM is seldomly used, but
there's close to noone actually calling it 'fourteen' or 'twenty' o'clock,
that's still just 2 and 8.
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Rik Wasmus
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