Why one of the most advanced nation in the world isn't capable to see how utterly stupid, confusing and useless the am/pm system is ? Why can't you just count to 24 like everyone ?
What's confusing about it?
>>56820779
You always have to remember to put AM or PM.
>>56820860
The only time you really need to do that is for a deadline. Other than that, it's pretty difficult to confuse times that are 12 hours apart. No one accidentally shows up for a hair appointment at 3:00 AM.
>>56821102
Hi, let's have a meeting at 8 o'clock ! ... AM. No wait, PM. Wait.
>>56821253
I don't know what's confusing for you. AM is before noon, PM is after noon. doesn't french has both of these ways to measure time? polish has and we use them interchangably
>>56821253
>Let's have a meeting at 8
>Ok, that's early but I'll be in the office by then, since nobody works their job at 8:00 PM :^)
>>56822259
>since nobody works their job at 8:00 PM
in what world are you living in ?
>>56822259
How this conversation would go if you used the 1st world system:
>Let's have a meeting at 8
>Ok
>>56822518
what world do you live in? you wouldn't have meetings in that kind of job
Because americans are literally retarded and need to be special snowflakes on anything
>le feet
>le pounds
>le am/pm
>muh miles
fucking pathetic pieces of shit ugh
>>56822552
Nobody would say "Let's have a meeting at 20", though.
>>56820680
>use am/ pm system
>put a man on the moon
Get Rekt you frog posting piece of shit
#praiseISIS
>mfw burgers call it military time
>>56822573
>that kind of job
which kind ? at just had a meeting at 20h you asshole. AND I start at 8h.
another thread of yurofags obsessed with the way Americans do things
>>56822661
dont forget
>le farenheit
>>56822721
Fuck off ahmed
>>56822680
>Nobody would say "Let's have a meeting at 20", though.
Why ?
>>56822682
Admit it would have been hilarious if the first man on the moon was instead sent to the Sun because of AM/PM confusion.
The AM/PM system causes none of the confusion you're assuming about it and you would find it just as natural had you been born over here.
>>56822777
SIR YES SIR 23:18 FUCKING OFF
>>56822738
>meeting
that's not how you call it when a customer enters your shitty retail shop, frenchkek
>>56822774
Also
> le dollars
Like they can't use Euros like normal people.
>>56822930
I'm on the same time as Sweden ? Fuck...
>>56822915
Still not logical.
>>56822518
certainly not happening in France you lazy motherfuckers. Now wonder your country is shit with your stupid 32h week and 6 months vacation.
I also think 12h system sucks in formal or business context. There even is this one crappy program I know, where you have to type the date and then write AM or PM behind it, which is stupid beyond believe. Of course there is nothing wrong if you use a 12h system in your spoke language. In German for example you'd often say:
* let's meet at 5 in the afternoon
instead of:
* let's meet at seventeen o'clock (which is still valid, but less common in my particular dialect)
>>56823081
What's illogical about dividing time into two periods?
Is midnight 12AM or 12 PM?
>>56823203
12 PM is noon, now go back to your Guinness
>>56823180
Because there is absolutly no reason to do it ? It's already divided in 24 periods, it's called hours.
>>56820680
It's confusing for you because you haven't grown up on it. Your 24 hour standard confuses me and pisses me the fuck off. That's on what we were raised so we can't change that.
>>56822518
>lets meet at 8 in the morning
>sounds great
Are you fucks really that anti social? There's nothing to misunderstand.
Americans are "special" so they need to use a fucked up time and date along with some ancient nigger tier measuring system.
Its kinda ironic since america invented globalization and yet they cant even succeed at it themselves.
>imperial system
>AM/PM
>fahrenheit degrees
>MM/DD/YYYY
Why?
>>56823299
the reason to do it is that it's easier to make a 12h mechanical clock than a 24h, you kek
>>56822850
They wouldn't get confused because it's am or pm
>>56823203
I'm not sure if there is a consistent solution to this. I think the most common interpretation is that midnight is 0:00 AM and noon is 12:00 PM. But I have seen different usages even from people native to the 12h system. To be fair, especially americans are very easy on such rules, probably because the country has a multilingual background and is used to people having fucked up language.
>>56823453
If you ever had a real job you would know it's perfectly possible to have meeting at 8 or 20 either way.
>>56822661
Yet you fucks still want to live here and leech off our shit. Lmao if you don't like our standards stay in your shithole you disgusting beaner scum
>>56823499
> mechanical clock
> the current year
why ?
>>56823492
Because freedom
>>56823597
Ok cool. Why are you bitching about how we do things.
also, am and pm is not an american invention. romans did it and the abbreviations are from latin. actually, romans copied it from others because this shit is as old as mesopotamia
>>56823663
because arabs touch your girlfriend at night
AM/PM is so retarded that even their own military uses 24 hour format.
>>56823492
>hating on mm/dd
If you look at the first number of mm/dd system you have a rough idea of the time of year something happened which is useful when you're looking at the past.
You don't get that with dd/mm and you can always just look the second number if you forget what today is.
>>56820860
Thats not confusing unless you're retarded.
>>56820680
Because with our way, we can have circular wall clocks that count to twelve. We still understand military time, and I can set my phone to that if I want.
Really, if you want to bash something americans do, the fact that we don't use the metric system is much more apt.
>>56820680
>ante meridiem
>post meridiem
It comes from Latin Pierre, cmon now
>>56823780
then i call cultural appropriation checkmate atheists
>confusing
>>56823986
lel
>>56823492
>MM/DD
This is because we say "November 26th" over here, not "26th of November" like you guys might.
>>56823853
even if your twisted logic is somehow acceptable, it's still literally only you, Saudi Arabia, Pilippines and Canada and I think you dragged the poor guys down with you
>>56823663
I have a very hard time reading an old school clock without numbers printed on it. fucking digital natives.
>>56820680
>What time is it
>23 hours
>T-Thanks
>>56820680
How the fuck are we supposed to know whether something that happened in the past (lets say a birth) was during the day or night? Do you know how boring it is to write "11:33 at night"? Doctors who have to file that shit know.
>>56823257
11am - 1 hour later - 12 pm - 1 hour later - 1 pm
all a bit questionable to not be dishonest
>>56822661
this tbhfamsmh
>>56824321
>can't offer a good rebuttal
>hurr your argument is twisted
>>56824483
Oh Grease, today you paid your denbts to my sides.
>>56822991
Maybe because we're not in Europe you mongoloid.
>>56820680
I use AM and PM so I can make a wish on 11:11 twice a day.
>>56824741
gayest thing i've read all year
We still use the twelve hour clock for the same reason we hate soccer.
And that's so you can have a reason to bitch.
I MEAN COME ON GUYS
IT'S 2015 (AD)
>>56824641
When you look at something in the past you have to look up year most of the time, and it's easier when month and year are together, so even yyyy/mm/dd would be more logical.
When you look up what date is today or what is tomorrow, you know the month and year, so you really need only one number and the first is ideal considering that you need to know day most of the time.
And simply smallest->medium->biggest time interval makes pefect sense, mm/dd/yyyy is equivalent of 1m, 16mm and 55cm or whtever inches and feet you guys have there. I mean it's technically not wrong, but why would you do that?
>>56825251
>IT'S 2015 (CE)
How DARE YOU IMPOSE THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ON OTHERS!? Racist.
>>56822661
you guys do am/pm too you fuck
BUILD WALL
>>56825251
AD and the other thing are stupid as well. We should rather use the some form of galactic time e.g. big bang or something. Then shorten it up for convenience.
Also how was that again with 13 months at 28 days each and the last one has 29 days or something.
I assumed everyone used the AM/PM system desu senpai. Do frogs use military time?
>>56820680
>OP
typical dutch
>>56823492
Personally, when using numbers to write the date i go DD/MM/YY, but never speak it that way. When spoken it is always November 25th.
I prefer the Julian Day Date Calendar but no one uses it in public.
>>56822930
You know it's called Military time in the U.S. because only the military uses it, right? That makes sense, does it not?\
>>56822991
Too bad the Euro is outshined by the Pound because the British were actually smart and realized the Euro was a stupid idea. Plenty of countries have their own currency, you fucking moron. Plenty of countries use dollars as well.
>>56823529
Actually the twenty-four hour clock is better above the Arctic Circle and below the Antarctic Circle.
>>56824911
Damn, sorry man.
>>56825571
we use 12 hr system only when talking, but it's normal to say "well I must be there at 17:40" or something, it really depends on situation
we don't use "am" or "pm", maybe "6 in the evening" for example when it's not sure what we mean
> not using metric time
Literal barbarism
>>56825775
Refineries in the U.S. use 24 hour clock.
>>56821253
>implying any french person would work as late as 8pm
>>56820860
If you're retarded. Am is morning pm is night. The 24 hour system is better I guess, but its always been am/pm and nobody gets confused therefore we don't have a dire need to change. We also use both the metric system and imperial system.
>>56820680
>doesn't understand the historical importance behind the number 12
>calls us stupid
Never change frenchie.
>>56825347
There's more of a difference in months because of seasons than in years and days.
And if you focus on history no one writes in the slash format anyway.
YYYY format is annoying because there are four digits that would be better off at the end of the chain.
>>56822661
>omg this 12 hour system is so hard to use
>americans are retarded even though they can use it and must therefore be smarter than me
>>56821253
We don't say it like that though, we say "hey we got a meeting at 8 in the morning" or "8 at night" it doesn't complicate things at all having to say that.
>>56826421
>There's more of a difference in months because of seasons than in years and days.
yeah, but it's not medieval times anymore, dates are now far more important than months
>And if you focus on history no one writes in the slash format anyway.
you brought up history
>YYYY format is annoying because there are four digits that would be better off at the end of the chain
true, definitely for everyday use
>>56826646
This
>>56823096
>certainly not happening in France you lazy motherfuckers. Now wonder your country is shit with your stupid 32h week and 6 months vacation.
It's 25h week and 8 month vacation, you fucker.
>>56820680
Just like your system of measurement it isn't practical for every day life faggot
>>56820680
>why would you use two twelve hour periods
You literally posted the reason why
>>56823492
>>MM/DD/YYYY
12 months, 30 days, 2000+AD years
From smallest, to biggest
>>56822661
You all had your customary units too. You let yourselves be cuçked by le international faggotry.
Fuck off and worry about yourself, Pierre
>>56820680
It's helpful to indicate whether something is before or after noon, which is what AM and PM mean.
French people don't wake up before noon anyway so it's unneeded in your country.
>>56823669
Rock, Flag and Eagle
>>56828212
>changes most often, changes after a while, changes literally once a year
But okay, let's say for the sake of argument that both are equally logical and useful. The question is then, why on earth would you take something that all civilized world use and change it.
>>56828703
But 13 also indicates it's after noon, what's your point?
>>56828910
We didn't change. The rest of the world did.
>>56829033
Clocks go up to 12.
>I'll have your semen ration at 10 minutes
>in 10 minutes?
>no, at 10 minutes
>but that's 10 minutes from now
>wait, what time is it now?
>zero o'clock
typical yuro conversation
"We'll meet at 0900 hours."
Star Treeeekkkkkk
>>56826828
Same as in Europe then. From some of the posts here, you'd think people are scheduling appointments at 20 o'clock.
>>56827190
We might not have to farm anymore but we still are concerned about things like the weather and summer vacation for school and holidays etc. I think what I'm trying to get at is you set your time basis psychologically on a year the mm format cuts out a specific frame of time whereas on the same time basis of a year the dd format could have happened at any time of the year. Now on the basis of a month dd wins for everyday use but it's not significantly harder in an mm/dd format. When I meant history I was thinking more of in the sense of looking at documents and not like reading a history book for class.
And as for smaller should go to bigger there are 12 possible numbers for months and 31 for days and even more for years so mm/dd/yy does go smaller to bigger but in more of a sense for math as opposed to time.
I don't really think mm/dd is really significantly greater (i take it back if i said or implied that than dd/mm or vice versa aside from /pol/ cultural dickwaving but mm/dd is perfectly usable.
Now metric is pretty retarded for science but all the science classes use metric anyway unless the teacher wants to be a dick.
