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Posted by Steve Swift on October 19, 2007, 1:52 am
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> "Always"? Surely not!
The term "Always used to" implies a continuous period of time in the
past. It certainly was continuous between about 1950 (when I was
watching "Andy Pandy" and "Muffin the Mule") and some indeterminate time
in the past, but which I'd estimate as 10 years ago. I suspect the
watershed was when TV schedules became available in more than just the
Radio and TV times. This is all UK-centric, of course.
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Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
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Posted by George L. Sexton on October 23, 2007, 10:56 am
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:32:52 +0100, Steve Swift wrote:
> Most annoyingly are the TV announcements that say "Coming up at 9
> o'clock..." with no mention of whether it is am or pm!
In the US, times are given as <time>, <time -1 hr> Central. For Pacific
time (California), they delay the programs and run them at <time>.
If you're in the Mountain Time zone, you just have to subtract two hours
from <time> to come up with when the show will be on.
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George Sexton
MH Software, Inc. - Home of Connect Daily Web Calendar
http://www.mhsoftware.com/connectdaily.htm
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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on October 18, 2007, 2:42 am
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> 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
>
I had a microwave that had the option to use 24 hour, and that was what I
chose. A computer geek friend (more geeky than I am) came over, noticed
it, and promptly started to let me know there was something wrong with it,
and he was sure he could fix it -- until I told him I wanted it that way.
My father was in the army so I grew up hearing I had to be in school by oh
eight hundred hours, then I worked at a 24hour answering server, and then
as a wire operator at a stock brokerage. Therefore, it's very natural for
me to write 16:30, and a lot faster than 4:30pm.
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Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
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Posted by Steve Swift on October 19, 2007, 1:56 am
Please log in for more thread options > My father was in the army so I grew up hearing I had to be in school by oh
> eight hundred hours, then I worked at a 24hour answering server, and then
> as a wire operator at a stock brokerage. Therefore, it's very natural for
> me to write 16:30, and a lot faster than 4:30pm.
And then there was the old army colonel who, when surveyed, said that he
hadn't had sex since nineteen fifty-four. When the surveyor remarked
that was a long time ago, he replied "Nonsense! It's only twenty-one
hundred hours now!"
So there's scope for confusion even between times and dates.
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Steve Swift
http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html
http://www.ringers.org.uk
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Posted by Rob Waaijenberg on October 16, 2007, 6:44 pm
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> Hi,
>
> What time zones tend to use 24 hours time format? Googling hasn't
> been able to answer the question.
>
> Thank you.
>
How about this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_by_country
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Rob
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