On 2024-06-23, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: >> > A attribute the FCC forced on broadcasters as they like to see > transmitter logs kept in 24 hour time. I got so used to it that when I > retired in 2002, I'd been on 24 hour time for 40 years and didn't > convert back to two 12 hour periods a day. The AM/PM convention. So > when I say its 22:30, its 10:30 PM to the neighbors next door.
Here in France I grew used to it very easily, and now the AM PM convention seems wrought with potential error. I'm sure we've crashed a space vehicle or two do to the potential for conflating the two, like we did when we mixed up miles for kilometers (or vice-versa). When my mom came to visit one time in the nineties she requested I change my alarm clock to AM PM time (it is now 15:25 here in the Gallic regions, where the weather has finally turned summery after forty days and forty nights of rain). Celsius too is only a matter of habit. 30° is hot; you don't translate anymore. It is what it is. Like a pomme is an apple and une feuille is a leaf. You can become confused, though, when filling out US forms where the birth date is written M/D/Y instead of D/M/Y, and sometimes you have to be careful not commit the silly mistake that will entrain months of delay in intricate *dédales* of the administration.
