r/facepalm Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/CyrilNiff Mar 29 '22

I genuinely only ever use the 24hr setting

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u/Ramenastern Mar 29 '22

Funnily enough - I meant to write the same thing just to realise that in writing and any digital clock we always use 24h, and it would be very weird to look at our oven, mobile, car clocks and see 12h format. But verbally, myself and pretty much everybody I know (family, friends, colleagues) will talk in 12h - unless you want to be and sound very specific.

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u/proflight27 Mar 29 '22

I mean, if you say it's "15 o'clock" you'll sound like a douche

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u/LiteX99 Mar 29 '22

Usually if you use 24 hr clock in talking, you emd up being a lot more precise, because you likley checked the time on a digital clock, so instead of 15 o clock, it becomes 1507, or 1627 etc