24 hour clock?
LK:
Quote from: klapaucius on 2005 August 05, 02:25:34
That was two and a half hours ago! ;D
No, two hours ago was 1900ish. Or 1800ish. Or 20-something-ish. Come to think of it, who cares?
fff:
Thank you, El Presidente - off to d/l now - although most of my lots already have weird crap happening at any given time of the (Sim)day, so nothing unusual there..... :)
Marvin Kosh:
Amazing. I had no idea there was such a difference between versions. I suppose that the 24-hour clock is more widely used in Europe though.
veilchen:
Quote from: Marvin Kosh on 2005 August 06, 15:17:51
Amazing. I had no idea there was such a difference between versions. I suppose that the 24-hour clock is more widely used in Europe though.
It is the way we tell time officially. However, we (in Germany) don't say its 14hundred o'clock, we write it as 14:00 and say its 14 o'clock. When it's rather obvious that it is 2 o'clock in the afternoon as opposed to 2 o'clock in the morning, we do use the simple form and say its 2 o'clock instead of 14, just as the U.S. population does not use the a.m. and p.m. while conversing when its painfully obvious.
G.
Oddysey:
France is the same way. For school and train schedules and such, 24:00 time is used, but in most conversation, 12:00 is used unless there could be some confusion. A very reasonable method, too, since you don't have to spend hours pondering what exactly those abominable acronyms actually mean. PM? AM? Who comes up with this stuff? It means something like "post" and "before" in Latin. Demented!
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