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Our country is so big and heavily populated that you’ll rarely encounter someone from a country that uses the 24 hour system. Canada uses the 12-hour clock, and I think Mexico does (but I’m not sure, in all my spanish classes they taught us to say “son las ocho y media en la noche” for 8:30 PM, instead of “veinte y media horas” as I was taught when I studied in Spain for a semester)

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matter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Most countries that use 24h time (Western Europe, ime) use both interchangeably - saying “at 18” or “at six in the evening” are both totally normal.

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- governorkeagan@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Just to add to this. I found a map on Wikipedia that shows this.
  
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  - jungle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That map looks quite inaccurate, I wonder where they got that info.
    
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AsperagusP@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Quebec uses 24h, rest of Canada uses 12h.

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- negativeyoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Quebec does a lot of dumb shit that isn’t consistent with the rest of Canada
  
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  - Rediphile@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Hard to consider using 24hr time amongst the ‘dumb shit’ though.
    
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    ggiesen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Agreed. I use 24 hour time on all my devices, working in IT it just makes things easier.
    
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  - snake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Shocking that a distinct society, a separate nation within Canada, has different customs…
    
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jungle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Nobody says “veinte y media”. It’s “veinte treinta”, and everyone understands that and it’s shorter than “ocho y media de la noche”, which everyone understands as well. They’re completely interchangeable and nobody would find either strange or unusual.

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BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It may be rare to find someone who uses it in regular conversation, but medical, logistics, IT, and military commonly used it… Everyone likely knows a few people that use it.

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