On 4 Jun 2004, at 06:51, J.Falkink-Pol wrote:
As for the 12/24 hour system:
In the Netherlands we write the 24 hour system with a dot between the
hours
and the minutes. But we speak in the 12 hour system. To make things
more
complicated 10.30 pronounces as 1/2 11, dropping the 'before' where the
English put 'after'. Once (long before the cell-phones) my father in
law
woriedly phoned me to ask if I knew were his wife was. It appeared he
advised her a late train due to conversion errors.
In England the 24 hour clock is being used more and more in the written
form, but mostly in conversation it's the 12 hour clock. BUT in
speaking 10:30 is half past ten, not half before eleven, so that would
be an easy source of error!
Brenda
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