Comment on I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.

• warm@kbin.earth ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be honest, it's mainly just USA that just use 12-hour (and call 24-hour "military time"?), the large majority of the world use both interchangeably.

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• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also adopt UTC as global time while we’re improving things. No more messing around with all those different time zones, one is enough.

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If we’re doing this I’m referring to the hour past midnight as 0:XX and not 24:XX and you can’t stop me

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  • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe I’m missing the joke, but I’m pretty sure 00:XX is correct.

    Please do not judge me too harshly if I’m wooshing.

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• joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  so would just saying am pm all the time.

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