Do you use 12-hour or 24-hour time?

[Laura Knotek]

Do you use 12-hour or 24-hour time on your devices?

I like 24-hour time and use it on my Nokia Lumia 900 and on my computers. The reason I prefer 24-hour time is because there will never be issues with settings alarms for evening instead of morning by mistake.

How about you? Which do you prefer?

 

[crystal_planet]

12 hour and the answer is simple: I am too lazy to subtract 12 from everything when it gets to be afternoon.

 

[Alex Kj]

12-hour, no need to use anything different here in USA, it will only confuse the poor local population if I'll tell them it's currently "17:35" when asked for a time ;-) When I visit my relatives on the other continent I of course switch to a proper 24-hour world standard ;-)

 

[Laura Knotek]

12-hour, no need to use anything different here in USA, it will only confuse the poor local population if I'll tell them it's currently "17:35" when asked for a time ;-) When I visit my relatives on the other continent I of course switch to a proper 24-hour world standard ;-)

I still tell people the time using 12-hour time. I just don't see the 12-hour time on my device. At least for me, it's easy to read 17:21 and say 5:21 PM.

 

[Laura Knotek]

When I visit my relatives on the other continent I of course switch to a proper 24-hour world standard ;-)

I've noticed that most stores in US tend to use 24-hour time on cash register receipts.

 

[Alex Kj]

I still tell people the time using 12-hour time. I just don't see the 12-hour time on my device. At least for me, it's easy to read 17:21 and say 5:21 PM.

I can usually easily convert teh time between formats, it's just a little bit inconvenient sometimes especially if you're not very focused at the moment due to being sleepy or drunk or too nervous or whatever...

 

[koldmiser]

24hr. I work in emergency services so its what I'm used to, but I've trained myself to translate for people who don't get it.
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[Kebero]

24 hour time and international date format. I used to do tech support for law enforcement and I've interned at NOAA.

 

[palandri]

12 hour clock in the states. 24 hour clock when overseas. I am prior military so either clock is ok.

 

[bawboh86]

When I was in Boy Scouts, enough of the troop leaders used 24 hour format, so I just got use to using it on my watches and devices. I use 24-hour time, and tend to speak/text it, but I've also caught myself using 12-hour (just not as frequently).

 

[wpward291]

24 for me former marine so gotta stick to what I know

 

[Daniel Ratcliffe]

24-hour time, UK date format. Simple, I can easily distinguish between AM and PM. Plus I prefer to read it as 24-hour too. Everything I know of is set to 24-hour time too.

 

[sinime]

12 hr time... Cause 24 hr time is so last week.

 

[Kebero]

24 for me former marine so gotta stick to what I know

Thank you for enlisting!

 

[Mizmo]

i'm from europe, so 24h

12-hour, no need to use anything different here in USA, it will only confuse the poor local population if I'll tell them it's currently "17:35" when asked for a time ;-) When I visit my relatives on the other continent I of course switch to a proper 24-hour world standard ;-)

you read 17 but say 5

 

[Chregu]

This 12-hour AM/PM thing is not really existing here. We only use 12-hour time in informal spoken language, never in written language or on watches/devices.

I think this is also one of the hard parts for people starting to learn English here. But after a while AM is easy to remember, it's just short for "Am Morgen" and PM is the other one... :wink:

 

[gedzum]

I mostly use 12-hour time since I too am sometimes lazy to try and process what the time is in 24-hour. But at the moment, I'm watching through 24 (tv series) again, so I have to froce myself to process what the time is :wink:

 

[rdubmu]

Only 24 hour, I actually read in my head the time 17:21 as 521, I convert it easily
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[stmav]

I'm former military as well, but use 12 hour. Never thought about changing it to 24. Whenever I do see 24 my mind automatically subtracts 12 from my Navy days.

 

[ImAdrian23]

12-hour, although 95% of my country uses 24-hour time.