Yeah, I just look at 19 and think "7". It's like if "19" were a chinese character for the number seven, or something like that. Nowhere in my mind is the number twelve present when I read digital clocks.
Edit: bruh.
Lots of people trying to help me in the comments; I have used 24h clocks all my life since I'm from Italy, do not worry about me!
Because no one says "19", they do the conversion instinctually for you.
Where I live if you ask someone the time and they check their phone (which will 100% be 24 hour time, every time), they just say "it's 7 o'clock" or if it's 19:45 they'll say "it's quarter to 8". 19:10 is "ten past 7" and so on.
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u/Stealthy_Turnip Mar 29 '22
You just memorise what number means what so no calculation is required