I don’t think it is clumsy at all, and use it all the time when speaking.
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kamen@lemmy.world 3 days agoEU fella here. I’m strongly pro-Metric and yet don’t see a problem with 12-hour time. 24-hour is kind of clumsy to use in informal speech or chat/text, but I would use it in all other instances.
uienia@lemmy.world 1 day ago
biofaust@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I use 24h all the time when speaking, never got strange gazes for doing so. And I never remember which one is midday and which is midnight on the 12-hour time.
kamen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well… it depends on the language too. I’m not a native English speaker, but I would use 12-hour in spoken English too - often without even appending “AM” or “PM” because it would be obvious from the context.