PE> Outside of Australia, Britain and the US, most
PE> of the rest of the world uses a 24-hour clock.
PE> No, the rest of the world is not full of computer nerds.

KR> the poms use it.

Everyone uses it to some extent, pity thats not what he was talking about tho.

PE> I don't believe the poms predominately use the 24-hour clock.

KR> ask yourself which of us has been there twice
KR> in the last year, and which one hasn't (:

Ask yourself who who might has has such a surfeit of dog
shit between the ears that it wouldnt have helped him much ?

Then there is the tiny matter of whether its at all likely
that the poms have changed that much in just the last year.

They have always had some problems with poms being
inducted into the military where they do indeed use
24 hour time rather more than society at large.

KR> the poms use the 24 hour clock in most of their timetables,
KR> and if i remember rightly, the tv stations use it also.

Proves sweet fuck all about anything much. Its quite common on say
VCRs here too, and most people, if you ask them the time, dont actually
say half past fourteen very often. Neither do very many poms Keef.

KR> most of the older people, though still talk in the old terms.

I dont even believe that as generally as you are claiming it. Say you
agree too meet someone at 3 in the afternoon, I bet not many of even the
younger people would say '15 hundred hours' or anything else except 3 oclock.

KR> it may be some sort of euro-standard that britain is having to follow.

In some respects, but I still dont believe its
as generally used as you are trying to claim.

We ourselves do at times read out a clock in 24 hour time, 14:35 etc.
Proves SFA about using 24 hour time in general tho.

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