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24 hr clock in dialogue
Wordmaker:
Maybe, I've just never heard the 24-hour clock used in day to day conversation anywhere.
spywolf:
I use it
specially on the phone when talking to people in different time zones
and a lot at school...
again it might be a geniration thing
older people use it less then people my age and teachers use 24hour more nowerdays
I use both depends who I talk to
Wordmaker:
Ease up on the age talk, I'm only 32! :P
I'd still be willing to say that the average person doesn't use the 24-hour clock in conversation. Definitely in Ireland almost nobody ever does, except maybe in office environments quoting e-mails or in IT departments. But not casual conversation. We have lunch at one o'clock, not 13:00 hours.
Shecky:
--- Quote from: Wordmaker on March 05, 2013, 02:04:34 PM ---Maybe, I've just never heard the 24-hour clock used in day to day conversation anywhere.
--- End quote ---
The French use both methods interchangeably.
mountainsoul:
We use the 24 hour clock format quite a lot, but then I work with that sort of crowd a lot so that might explain a few things...
13:15 I'd say as thirteen fifteen, 17:57 would be seventeen fifty-seven and 00:30 would, for me, be midnight thirty or zero zero thirty.
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