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Nesgroup address: rec.travel.europe - Date & Time for the message: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:53:19 +0100 /

Author of the message: Keith Anderson

Title of the message:
Re: sia too

Text of the message:
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 13:28:36 -0700, Go Fig <gofig@mac.com> wrote:

>
>In my 80+ countries visited, save transportation hubs, people use the
>12hr format on their clocks and in their speech... this too was the
>case last month in Paris.

And in my experience, the same applies throughout Europe. The 24hr
clock is used for timetables and schedules - probably to avoid
ambiguity. It is seldom, if ever,  used in social interaction.
The 24hr clock has been used in the UK for public transport timetables
for around 40 years now, and doesn't seem to cause any problems. Bit
like learning to drive, perhaps: at first you think "OK, down on the
clutch, into first, give it a bit of gas, slowly off the clutch" -
after a while you cease to think about it. I remember when 24 hr clock
timetables first appeared - "Oh Shit! 17:15, that's 17 minus 12, so
quarter past five in the afternoon". Nowadays I see 17:15 and think no
morte about it.



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