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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And Celsius? And 24 hour time?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

We use 24 h format here where I live but we speak in 12 h format because it's less awkward. Not all that shines is gold, I guess

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What's awkward about it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Computer, wake me up at zero six hundred hours!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's absurd, we just say "wake me up at six hours" and it understands us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And “wake me up at 18 oʼclock” for the pm variant.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And “wake me up at 18 oʼclock” for the pm variant.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"At six" works in 24 hour time too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use 24h in speech, it trips up some people a little but they all understand and I've gotten a few to switch!

My native language is Dutch, but I to give an example I say “vijftien uur” for 15:00 / 3pm and “vijtien uur dertig” for 15:30 / 3:30pm. My closest English equivalents would be “fifteen oʼclocm” and “fifteen thirty”, really.

My point is, make the tiniest possible step, only replace the number of the hour with the 24h variant and drop the am/pm part.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we are doing this, shouldn't we go straight to Kelvin? So we no longer have to deal with negative temperatures

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

So water freezes at 273 degrees and boils at 373? No thank you