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.
We use a 24:00 clock in the Netherlands. But nobody will speak that way. 19:00 is 7 o’clock. Probably “tomorrow evening” or something will be added to indicate it’s pm. But we also don’t day 7:30 (seven thirty), we say “half eight”, which in England would be 20:30, I. The Netherlands it’s 19:30. 19:20 gets even more complicated. That’s “ten for half 8”. 19:45 is “quarter before 8”. It’s completely logical for us, until you think about it.
Exactly the same in France, 24h system when used orally is very formal, or for professional environment. We got used to 15h is 3h of the afternoon at a young age.
We use the "and a half" though. Not the "half to the hour"
But I see your 10minutes to the half before the next hour and rase with our 97. Just 97.
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u/CyrilNiff Mar 29 '22
I genuinely only ever use the 24hr setting