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Originally Posted by HarryT
Just seems exceedingly odd to me not to use the 24h clock for things like timetables. I travel all over the world, and US airports are the only ones I've ever been to where the departure screens show times as "am/pm" rather than in 24h time.
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Well, it's not the only thing we do differently.
All you can say, really, is that the inconsistency leads to confusion -- particularly for, say, foreign travelers.
It's not that I have any particular objection to the idea of using it (beyond "darn you to heck for making me have to learn a new way to tell time"), but I had to say
something once @rem736 suggested it was
as important as a universal time period for the sake of avoiding confusion...
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Then maybe it's the rest of the world that's out of step? |
Also this.
