this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
617 points (98.0% liked)
memes
9853 readers
3447 users here now
Community rules
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.
Sister communities
- !tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I'm sorry is this some American joke I'm too European to understand?
Yes, they still use the imperial 12h system, not the metric 24h. Pathetic
we like to stay vigilant of the Sun's position relative to our meridian
Ah yes, the sun is three washing machines off the football fields, time for some high fructose corn syrup 😋
Hey, don't lump me in with those cretins, I've been using 24h for years.
Whenever a system puts in that format I just change it back to AM/PM, I just don't like it, I like to have less numbers (bigger numbers) on my screens... Not that it confuses me or anything.
Ah yes, the 1120PM is so much smaller than the 2320 on the screen
That's a bad example because you have to take off your socks to count that high in both cases.
Well, 23 is bigger than 11 isn't it?
That is totally what I meant, it is just how I got used to using AM and PM.
Does Europe not use AM/PM?
Nope “military time” as you call it, all the way babbyyyy
Not military time. Just 24 hour clock
Some people use one 24h, other am/pm, but everything related to clocks always has the choice to use one or the other configurable. Most people use 24h format and most public info and tv shows and all that usually uses 24h. When I was a kid am/pm was used in more places, not sure why.
Basically everyone knows how to use both, it's obvious and straightforward, I don't think I've ever seen anyone ever not being able to know the time whichever foat was shown. Am/pm comes more often in informal talking when context of the conversation is obvious since it's much easier to say snack at 3 than snack is at 15.
We just say 3 and expect you to understand that we aren't meeting in the middle off the night for a snack, context matters.
I'll never know what 12 AM and 12 PM are.
I don't think I've ever seen any country other than the USA using the 12 hour system
The UK, as is often the case with these things, uses a horrible cursed halfway house system. I have every digital clock I own set to 24h time but know that I would get weird looks if I made plans with someone to meet at 18
Same in Finland for spoken and some written (chat) stuff, that's where most of the time 12h is used, with just "let's meet at six" (no am or pm but clarified if not obvious from context).
Took me the longest time to understand what y'all meant by half-six. 5:30? 6:30? Now I'm unsure again. It is half past six, correct?
It is in the UK! I fucked up a couple of times in Germany because it's the other way round there
It's used in spoken language, especially in combination with quarter past and stuff, but not in writing in not in the setting of digital watches
i have almost never seen anyone use quarter past/till around here
Germany is divided into "quarter past/till" and "quarter/three quarter" but each with the 12h system.
never been there
Where are you from? Europe is big
texas
no
That’s cool, I didn’t know you guys did that. I use 24 hour time at work and it confuses half of folks and the other half appreciate it
We use a mix in the UK, I prefer to use 24h when written down though, and my alarm app doesn't mention am/pm
Romania uses it along with the other system
It's just a time system that can easily convert from one to the other. Not something to stake your superiority on.
I never claimed superiority. I only said that since Europeans are accustomed to 24h system, the joke becomes difficult to understand, because we don't have this problem.
But if you perceive this as some sign of superiority, well...
This is where empathy becomes a good skill to have. I'm certain you can understand the basic setup of the joke even though the exact situation may not be likely in your culture.
The joke isn't even about the time, it's about their anxious thinking.