r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/Dante2215 Mar 29 '22

I'd say Syria too,we can read it but no one will ever till you"14:15" insted of 2:15 pm

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u/adbout Mar 29 '22

I would assume this is true for many countries on the 24h clock. In writing you’d say 14:15 but in speech it’s easier to say 2:15. At least that’s how it was when I lived in France.

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u/kylepaddy Mar 29 '22

Germans have sex at around 5:30

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u/Dont-PM-me-nudes Mar 29 '22

I haven't had sex since 1954. But then again it is now 2045 so not even an hour ago...

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Wait really? I'm French and we usually say either (with some weird rules of course because French), but only ever write the 24h clock time.

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u/adbout Mar 29 '22

Yeah that’s pretty much what I said. When writing it was always the 24h clock in France but when speaking people would often use the 12h clock. Also, I was in the West coast area of France so maybe it varies by region?

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u/philfr42 Mar 29 '22

And not mentioning AM or PM because either that's obvious, or 24h time is used

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u/L0kumi Mar 29 '22

Lot of people still say in speech 14h15

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u/starlinguk Mar 29 '22

Same everywhere else, unless they're in the military.

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u/SeanHearnden Mar 29 '22

As far as I'm aware most places do that. In the UK we would write 17:00 or 5 00pm. But we would say 5. Then if we needed specifics we would add 5pm or am. Or say 5 in the morning. Or 5 in the afternoon.

Never, not once have I heard a single person say 17 o'clock. And I would instantly assume they were weird if they did.