Thread: Correct way to write 24 hour-time? Decimalpoint too.
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Old May 30th 06, 03:15 PM posted to alt.engineering.electrical,sci.physics,alt.astronomy
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Default Correct way to write 24 hour-time? Decimalpoint too.
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On a sunny day (Tue, 30 May 2006 15:32:35 +0200) it happened Charles D. Bohne
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On Tue, 30 May 2006 09:17:21 GMT, Jan Panteltje
wrote:

Wel, i did some introspection, as European, if in the Netherlands at
say 16:48h somebody askes you 'what time is it' (in Dutch: Weet U ook
hoe laat het is?), I would reply with '12 voor 5' (12 to five).
Because of the context people usually KNOW if it is morning or evening.

Maybe - but you wouldn't do that on the phone with someone calling from
"het buitenland" :-)

C.

We should all change to UTC 24h clock.
And drop the anual time shifts for summer and winter time.
You would get used to it fast.....

....and throw away 6B biological clocks?

Earth is only so big.

Bit it's sooo round and only half of it lit up.

--
Keith