What Time do You use?

24 hour or 12 hour? do you think 24 hour time is confusing? I personally use 24 hour time. I have it set on my phone, Mac, iPod, and Xbox. Even the clock on my camera shows 24 hour time.

I use 12 hour because that's what I've grown accustomed to. However, during my recent trip to Taiwan, it would seem as though other parts of the world use the 24 hour clock.

I don't find it confusing, just something one has to get used to. Within a day or two on my trip I knew exactly what 16:30 meant without having to convert it to 12 hour time.

I just do the "subtract 2" thing. right now its 19:39. well thats 7:39 because 19-2 is 17. thus, 7. its an odd way, but it works for me.

That's what I do too

Nothin but the 24 hour clock set to the local time here in Vancouver, just what I"m used to.....now if Alpine would get that feature added to it's radios.....then the last holdout would be set to the 24 hour clock too !

Standard am and pm here. The 24 hr time setting, is usually left to the military. And eastern time zone too.

I would like to use the Zulu system but due to living in America it becomes a bit useless, someone will tell me to meet up with them at 7am or 6pm, or a store will say it closes at 10PM, there is really no point to it if I just have to convert all the time. There is nothing that confuses me about the Zulu system, there's nothing really to be confused about. Although I have recently switched to using Celsius for the temperature and am almost finished completely switching over to the metric system I protest the ways America pushes upon me!

I use the 12 hour format. To me, the 24 hour format seems too confusing.

I use both!
At work we use what I thought was called "military time" (24hrs) but I use the standard for everything else.

I really need to get my metric system down.

It's about yay high and yay big. That's right, isnt it? =P

bad joke, i know

Heh heh, what I've found helpful with converting myself to it was using the Unit Converter Widget that I have, great little tool.

but seriously though, I really do need to learn the metric system. The rest of the world does, and whenever I hear something like "meters" or "knots" or kilometers" i curse my school.

24-hour time here.

12 hours time here...But no confusion with 24 hrs time either!!!
& Yeh I prefer Matric units over other measurement units..!

I use metric time.

10 hours a day
100 minutes to an hour
100 seconds to a minute

etc.

cuhnool said:

Zulu or 12 hour? do you think Zulu time is confusing? I personally use Zulu time. I have it set on my phone, Mac, iPod, and Xbox. Even the clock on my camera shows Zulu time.

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I use 24 hour time for most things, it drives my family insane ( ). I think you have "24 Hour" and "Zulu" time confused. "Zulu" time is also know as "GMT" or the time in Greenwich England on which the UTC standard is based. Presumably your clock is set to 24 hour time for your location, not the time in Greenwich England, unless you happen to live there.

From Wikipedia:

Time zones usually differ from UTC by an integral number of hours, although the laws of each jurisdiction would have to be consulted if sub-second accuracy was required. Several jurisdictions established time zones that differ by an integer number of half-hours from UT1 or UTC.
The UTC time zone is sometimes denoted by the letter Z – a reference to the equivalent nautical time zone (GMT), which has been denoted by a Z since about 1950. The letter also refers to the "zone description" of zero hours, which has been used since 1920 (see time zone history). Since the NATO phonetic alphabet and amateur radio word for Z is "Zulu", UTC is sometimes known as Zulu time. This is especially true in aviation, where Zulu is the universal standard. This ensures all pilots regardless of location are using the same 24-hour clock, thus avoiding confusion when flying between time zones.

I see! I did not know that! hmm maybe i should change it in my OP

12 Hour format for me.

24 hour time for me.

I use the 24 hour clock on everything, and have done since I was about 10 years old. Mainly because thats when I got my first mobile phone, and started sending/receiving text messages, and there's nothing more annoying than receiving a message saying "ill meet u 2moro @ 10" and having to ask for clarification.

The metric system is odd here in the UK. All products have to be marked with metric sizes/weights (except draft beers which are sold by the pint), but our road signs, speed limits and speedometers are marked in miles rather than kilometers... but your car doesn't have a nought to 60 time, it's nought to 62 (100Kmph). Celsius or Fahrenheit depends on whether it's hot or cold, and you use the one which sounds the most dramatic.

I mostly stick to metric measurements (because it's what we're taught in school, they're usually more precise, and I spend a lot of time in Europe where everything's metric), but still use inches, feet, yards when a) that's the correct measurement b) I'm talking to someone over 40.