Poll: Do you use a 12 or 24 hour clock?

[Zontar]

This is something I've noticed a lot in my lifetime given I live in one of the few places both are used commonly, but there's a big disconnect in how people think of time depending on weather or not they use a 12 or 24 hour clock. So which do you use? As is pretty obvious, I use both since I live in a place where both are common, though it usually has to do with weather you're speaking in English or French.

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

I use 24 on everything. It removes any doubt of exactly what time of the day it is. I frequent places with no windows and sometimes wake up late afternoon.

 

[DOOM GUY]

12 hour clock, it's what I'm used to, and I prefer it.

 

[Albino Boo]

My PC, phone, tablet and car are on 24 hours but everything else on 12 hours. To be honest I swap from one to the other without noticing. I really dont care what things are set too.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I use a 12 hour clock. A 24 hour clock seems kind of a waste since I'm never awake for 8 of those hours anyway.

 

[Barbas]

Is 30 hour really a thing? Waaaaaitaminute, are you having a bubble?

I use 12 hour time, because otherwise I'd be switching between 12 hour and 14 hour quite often over the course of the week - my workplace uses 12 hour time on all its digital clocks.

 

[Asita]

12 hour. I preferred 24 for a while when I was in school, but it ended up being more trouble than it was worth for me as nobody else I knew used it and eventually that just made me feel pretentious.

 

[Scarim Coral]

My clock is 12 althought my pc and mobile phone is 24. My watch on the other hand is 12 I guess since only 6 and 12 are on it.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

I prefer to use a 12 hour clock, but I am perfectly capable of reading a 24 hour one if I need to.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

Just about every clock I use or see around me is of the 12 hour variety. But 24 hour clocks aren't half bad either. Sometimes I even prefer them. So both, I suppose.

 

[Wakey87]

I use both but I prefer 12 hour clocks. If you can't tell whether it's night or day the exact time doesn't mean much to you anyway.

 

[Zontar]

Is 30 hour really a thing? Waaaaaitaminute, are you having a bubble?

It's more of a joke in reference to the fact that Japanese broadcasters use 24:00-29:59 instead of 0:00-6:00 between midnight and 6am. I don't know if anything else uses it though.

So I'm going with "it's a thing".

 

[Elfgore]

I used twelve hour pretty much my entire life, but I've had to start using twenty-four hour recently for work. A majority of our reports are done in that time and the like. I still use twelve hour in my personal time though.

 

[DoPo]

It's more of a joke in reference to the fact that Japanese broadcasters use 24:00-29:59 instead of 0:00-6:00 between midnight and 6am. I don't know if anything else uses it though.

24:01 and forward is an unofficial standard (at least I think it's unofficial, I can't remember ISO 8601 mentioning it or anything else big) for times after midnight. 0:00 is midnight start of today and time progresses until 24:00 which is end of today or tomorrow's 0:00. These are part of ISO 8601 - 24:30 is, not often, but often enough to be semi-official notation to mean "half an hour after today". Similarly, 27:00 would be "three hours after today" or "three o'clock tomorrow". It's used to unambiguously distinguish between two times if you need to roll over a new day during the operation. So, for example, if you start a log on, say, the 10th of the month, if you were to note something happening at 27:00 it's unambiguous whether you mean 03:00 on the 10th or 03:00 on the 11th, as opposed to, you know, using 03:00.

It's just that there aren't that many situations that require the post-today notation, so it's not that widely used. It's definitely out there, though.

OT: I use 24 hour clock. More convenient. Easier to know exactly what time it is. Frankly, I'm even up to using some sort of decimal time system, as it's going to simplify things A LOT. I just can't find any nice watches that support it.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Most Canadians seem to prefer the 12-hour model. I'm no exception although I'm gradually getting to know how to read 24 hour time because the 3DS only displays time in that way. >.<

 

[senordesol]

12 hour. Raised on it, everyone I know uses it, don't want to do math in my head to figure out if it's 5PM