Every country uses it in an official capacity, except they don't call it military time. They call it official time. Everything from trains, to planes to store operating hours, entertainment, etc. is always given in the 24 h clock.
Maybe in casual conversations, possibly due to looking at an analog 12 h clock, people will speak in 12 h terms. But, everything written and spoken officially is 24 h time. If someone needs to know 12 h time when 24 h time is used, the burden of conversion is on them. If they are early or late for an event, the inconvenience is on them. This is the way it should be with metric. Everything should be officially metric and if some need to back convert to FFU, the burden and inconvenience is on them only and if an error results the loss or suffering is on them too. I'm sure those who have gotten their am and pm times crossed would be too embarrassed to talk about it, but I bet it happens quite often. Dan ----- Original Message ---- From: Mike Millet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 1:10:13 AM Subject: [USMA:38235] RE: Brand New Phone, 12 Hour Time. A bit off topic here but do any countries actually use the 24 hour format in their day to day activities? I have heard it referenced on the BBC site but especially in the US and Canada the only time 24 hour format is used is in conjunction with military time and military operations. Do countries exist where people actually list the time as meeting at 13:30 etc? I've never heard anyone that I've met from the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, and a couple other countries ever reference it. Not meaning to be rude just curious :). Mike ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html
