Markus Kuhn scripsit: > (and the US > military seem to drop the colon as in "1800" and say strange things like > "eighteen hundred hours" instead of "eighteen o'clock").
They say "klicks" for "kilometers", too. > I really wonder, why the modern notation doesn't > catch on in the US, where even air travel tickets still use the awkward > notation (and solve the ambiguity problem by never scheduling any event > exactly on noon or midnight). You underestimate the tendency of Americans to think that the way they do it is the way God intended (*and* to consider that of paramount importance). -- Some people open all the Windows; John Cowan wise wives welcome the spring [EMAIL PROTECTED] by moving the Unix. http://www.reutershealth.com --ad for Unix Book Units (U.K.) http://www.ccil.org/~cowan (see http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/unix3image.gif)
