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I always look it up on Google. I regularly run into this kind of problem when looking at log files which use AM/PM time. Related question: How do you even say "14:00" in English? In school I learned that you say o'clock but I never heard that in real life.
"Fourteen hundred" Fourteen o'clock works too but is less natural.
That said, UTC is universal also.
I'd be triped up too... to me it makes no sense that it goes 11AM, 12PM, 1PM. That it keeps the number sequence, switches the AM/PM, and then an hour later wraps the number sequence is just odd.
Do Europeans just not have analog clocks or watches anymore?
I also found the "European" remark a bit weird. I'm American so I don't really know, do Europeans generally ignore how AM/PM works? IIRC the Romans created the system, so I'd find it really weird if it had dissapeared from common usage around there. Also, every single picture I've found of a clock tower from Europe seems to follow a 12-hour convention.
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There's a misalignment between the sequential numbers (begin at 1:00; end at 12:59) and AM/PM (begin at 12:00; end at 11:59). A 24-hour clock fixes this, but if we insist on a 12-hour clock we could still align these two spans by renumbering the "12" hours as "0" hours. Then we would see 11:59 AM -> 0:00 PM -> 0:01 PM.
Good luck. Americans will insist that 12 is more intutive because zeros look weird or something. If you tried to standardize on 0-based 12 hour clocks in the US it'd probably result in something weird like Texas seceding or some Christian sect claiming it's anti-Christian and trying to assassinate you.
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I already used 24 hour time and ISO8601 date formats when I lived in Canada (up until 12 years ago). It's like using metric. Just use it.
If you can convince my government and my CEO, I'm game!
A lot of my exams will use the time 11:59pm instead of 12:00am to avoid confusion like this
I always look it up on Google. I regularly run into this kind of problem when looking at log files which use AM/PM time. Related question: How do you even say "14:00" in English? In school I learned that you say o'clock but I never heard that in real life.
Over 12, you generally pronounce it as military time. So you would say "14 hundred hours" I think.
WTF is 'military time'?