Blazing Tiger

I'm good keeping up with the 12 hour system and you want me to do military time. My gawd you trying to kill me. >_<

Pwetty set by Nikki.

Psycho Phoenix

Think about it this way: Mathematically 24-hour/Military Time is much quicker to use when figuring out time differences on a inter-continental through global scale, such as the time difference between Perth, Western Australia (GMT +8:00) and Los Angeles, California (GMT -8:00).

Say it's 11pm (23:00) in Perth, knowing the timezone GMT offsets to be 8 hours between Perth & GMT, and 8 hours between GMT & LA, we combine them for a total difference of 16 hours, dropping the time in LA to be 07:00 (7am). Keep in mind this is working with raw data and figures, ignoring any deviations such as DST.

Elsa

For those who enjoy math, then yeah it sounds like a party. For the rest of us - I'm with Bethy. Everybody has what works better for them, for me it's definitely the 12 hr

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ForeverGreen

i really could care less im smart enough to adopt to either one

nos-4-a2

I use the 24 hour method because i work SO much i tend to work about 26 hours at a shot though....
but yeah as an overall whole the 24 hour time scale works bette for me becase I can do my business around the world faster

t-rex

I could work with both clock systems, I admits the 12 hr system is easier to use in communicating time to persons who stop you on the street to ask the time.
All you have to do is subtract 12 or if you want life easier subtract 2 from the last digit of the military time. E.g. 17:00, 7 - 2 = 5 (pm).
Also a day has 24 hrs.; then 23 hrs must be 11pm and so on...

I agree to abide by the rules of PRE. :-P

Dark Huntress

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Originally Posted by t-rex I could work with both clock systems, I admits the 12 hr system is easier to use in communicating time to persons who stop you on the street to ask the time. All you have to do is subtract 12 or if you want life easier subtract 2 from the last digit of the military time. E.g. 17:00, 7 - 2 = 5 (pm). Also a day has 24 hrs.; then 23 hrs must be 11pm and so on...

That's how I always did calculated it :p

I agree where it is better to stick with 12 hr talking to people. In another way I think the 24 would eliminate some confusion there as well though. Like someone says to meet them at 7 and does say AM or PM, that can kind of be confusing. Sometimes it is implied of course, but yeah, telling someone the time, might as well stick to 12. It's not like 1 AM and 1 PM look anything alike by any means :p