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I work with Americans and this hits home hard. It's especially infuriating when they format their dates. "I had a meeting with so-and-so on 4/5" and nobody has any fucking clue what they mean.
The worst part is how hopelessly oblivious they are about it. It's not even like they don't care that nobody does things their stupid way - it's the fact that they're so insulated that they can't even fathom that nobody does things the same way they do. It just goes to show how clueless they are about the rest of the world and how little they get out of their neighborhoods.
It drives me mad. At this point, it's just offensive how ignorant they can be sometimes. If you have to work with other people, you should at least make an effort to be aware of the fact that others do things a different way and try to avoid situations like this, but they just refuse to do so.
Apologies... /rant
Besides the dates, I also still don't know if 12am is noon or midnight. Do Americans know? Is there a problem with simply counting to 24?
Agreed. I've never understood the logic of splitting the hours of the day in half. 1800 is so much nicer than 6PM.
I don't think that's purely an American thing though. If I had to guess, I'd say that most of the world uses 12-hour clocks instead of 24-hours. I could be wrong though. Nevertheless, I usually write all times in 24-hour format. But it always sounds awkward trying to use it in speech. I haven't figured out a good way to do that yet.
Thailand splits theri days in 4 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_six-hour_clock)
Please, correct the link, cause now it has closing bracket included.
On substance - even that makes more sense, with 4 zones designating morning, afternoon, evening, and night. 2 zones conflate them.
In my country it's normal to pronounce time in either format, and it doesn't make any confusion.
Also we don't use AM or PM when using 12-hour format: we say night/morning/day/evening. Like "3 in the day" means 3PM, or 15:00.
"Fifteen-o-o" works just fine as well.
In America you'll hear "It's three in the morning" or "It's four in the afternoon."
"Three in the morning" is super weird, like, it's not morning, this thing is called night :D
If you said "three at night" to an American, I think he'd have to process it for a minute. You'd say it's _ in the morning from like 12:30AM through noon, _ in the afternoon from noon to about 6 or 7, then _ at night/evening from then till midnight.
12:30AM is something that completely breaks my mind :D
We're talking 00:30, right? And what if there is 0:15, for example?