24 hour time

[gfish]

I've been using 24 hour time almost exclusively for several years now. The switch was a no-brainer for me -- tacking on AM or PM is silly, and the math is easier this way. However, I wasn't raised with it, and of course I'm surrounded by less enlightened systems, so to my great shame I still find myself regularly thinking in 12 hour time.

I was just working on someone else's computer, when I glanced at the clock. It read 2:50, and I was momentarily confused at it suddenly being late at night. Woot! About time I started to internalize this. Now to stop thinking of pressure as PSI...

Comments

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

Will it help if i hit you over the head with this bar?

[arjache.livejournal.com]

I'm actually most comfortable with kPa for pressure, although I'll admit to being fond of atm on rare occasions. I blame chemistry class for both of those, though.

I'm doing okay with 24 hour time (although it's not terribly internal yet). My big stumbling block is thinking about day-to-day temperatures in celsius. I've got this big mental division where celsius/kelvin are for science and fahrenheit is for everything else.

[hello-mike.livejournal.com]

so, as an example, neuro applies the bar to your head with 320 N of force. the bar hits a the top of your head (it deforms slightly, but we'll approximate), it's 4cm wide and the impact area is 8cm long.

P = F/A, so that's what 100 kPa feels like.

or, you know.

a bar.

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

I use 24h on my computer, but 12h in spoken conversation.

I'm also a big fan of ISO 8601 date format, though usually with a space rather than "T" for date-time.

[hello-mike.livejournal.com]

(yeah, I know it wasn't original in any way, but I wanted to amuse myself by constructing the full bar scenario)

[hollyking.livejournal.com]

Now if we could all start using UTC so that I don't have to keep adding a variable offset to figure out when things happen.

[adularia.livejournal.com]

You'll have *really* internalized it when you see a time of, say, 19:47 and don't have to think about it.