{"id":7466,"date":"2015-05-27T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=7466"},"modified":"2015-05-24T07:54:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T14:54:57","slug":"12-hours-v-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=7466","title":{"rendered":"12 Hours v. 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s very military. &#8220;Then I&#8217;ll see you at 16:00,&#8221; which he pronounces as &#8220;sixteen hundred.&#8221; What the hell time is that?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re a regular human, you do the math: Noon is 12:00. So 16 minus 12 is 4. That&#8217;s 4:00 PM! Yeah. Got it. I&#8217;ll see you at 4:00.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve known about military time, but not really used it. Who needs to? Only a few hours in the day can be confused. If someone says &#8220;The meeting is at 7:00&#8221; then you hope they mean to add &#8220;in the evening&#8221; because 7:00 AM is too ungodly an hour for anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if they say, &#8220;The meeting is at 19:00&#8221; then you have no doubt &mdash; unless your math is poor.<\/p>\n<p>About four years ago, I converted from 12-hour time to 24-hour. The translation was rough, but necessary. I got the inspiration when I went to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Europeans easily switch between 12- and 24-hour time. That&#8217;s because their transportation system runs solely on 24-hour time. In most locations on this planet, transportation is measured in 24 hour time. And that makes damn fine sense.<\/p>\n<p>A long time ago, I missed an early morning flight. I needed to get up at 4:00 AM so I set my alarm for 4:00 . . . PM. It&#8217;s a common mistake. But it&#8217;s not so common when 4:00 PM is known as 16:00 and 4:00 AM is known as 4:00. In that case, you can&#8217;t accidentally set an alarm.<\/p>\n<p>After returning from Europe, and recognizing the common sense involved with 24-hour time, I converted my electronics to that format. The computer, my phone, and tablet all use 24-hour time. I began resetting all my appointments to 24-hour time as well.<\/p>\n<p>Most electronics make switching formats easy, but on a computer you must use the Language or Region setting to change the clock format. For example, in Windows:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open the Control Panel.<\/li>\n<li>Choose Clock, Language, Region.<\/li>\n<li>Below the Region and Language heading, click the link Change the Date, Time, or Number Format.<\/li>\n<li>For Short Time and Long Time, choose the values that start with a big H.<\/li>\n<li>Click OK.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The Big H in Windows represents the military time format, as illustrated in Figure 1.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7471\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7471\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/time_figure1.png\" alt=\"Figure 1. Where Windows hides the 24-hour clock settings.\" width=\"434\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/time_figure1.png 434w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/time_figure1-260x300.png 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. Where Windows hides the 24-hour clock settings.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On an Android device, 24-hour time is set from the Settings app: Choose Date &#038; Time and then activate the 24-Hour Format setting.<\/p>\n<p>Vocally, I still refer to time using the 12-hour system, which is what the humans around me expect. Internally, I&#8217;m fully 24-hour. And since then, I&#8217;ve never screwed up an appointment or schedule by listing it at the wrong time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose a clock format that doesn&#8217;t drive you insane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7475,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7466\/revisions\/7475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}