On (10 Jul 95) Rod Speed wrote to Keith Richardson...



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.



 RS> Everyone uses it to some extent, pity thats not what he was talking about

 RS> 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 (:



 RS> Ask yourself who who might has has such a surfeit of dog

 RS> shit between the ears that it wouldnt have helped him much ?



did you acidentally hit alt-f5 or have you decided to open every reply

with an insult just in case you cant find a suitable spot to insert one?



 RS> Then there is the tiny matter of whether its at all likely

 RS> that the poms have changed that much in just the last year.



what has that to do with anything, as far as i know, paul has never been

to the uk.



 RS> They have always had some problems with poms being inducted into

 RS> the military where they do indeed use 24 hour time rather more

 RS> than society at large.



i think that you must have been at that which made griffith famous,

maybe rod glasson can make sense of your comments so far sure as hell i

cant. as far as i have seen, having worked with the pommy military, as

well as the australian, and yank ones, they have no more difficulty with

24 hour clocks than anyone else. perhaps you have some example of this

inability to share with us, but probably not, you always come up short

when asked for specifics.



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.



 RS> Proves sweet fuck all about anything much. Its quite common on say

 RS> VCRs here too, and most people, if you ask them the time, dont actually

 RS> say half past fourteen very often. Neither do very many poms Keef.



perhaps that explains the popularity of g-code, very few people seem to

be able to program them correctly. as i pointed out to paul, even people

using the 24 hour clock all the time tend to talk in 12 hour terms. i'd

bet that if you went on the flight deck of an airliner and asked the

pilot the time, he'd say half past eight, but when talking to atc, he'd

give his eta as 21:00. basically i dont think that you have a clue how

poms do things in normal life, only what you perceive from the very

narrow, and second hand perspective of far rural nsw.



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



 RS> I dont even believe that as generally as you are claiming it. Say you

 RS> agree too meet someone at 3 in the afternoon, I bet not many of even the

 RS> younger people would say '15 hundred hours' or anything else except 3

 RS> oclock.



if they were going to catch a train, they would probably refer to it as

the 15:00 train.



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



 RS> In some respects, but I still dont believe its

 RS> as generally used as you are trying to claim.



just try something at first hand for a change instead of hypothesising

from afar.



 RS> We ourselves do at times read out a clock in 24 hour time, 14:35 etc.

 RS> Proves SFA about using 24 hour time in general tho.



exceeding rare in this country, a few people use it in special

circumstances. i prefer 24 hour clocks, i have my watch set in that

mode, but i talk in 12 hour mode as so few people understand if you

dont.



                        Keith



... Visit Tokyo - its a gas!



--- PPoint 1.92