RE: Y2K heads up - is this troub

["Neil Palmer" <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually I've never met anyone who refers to it as "Twenty One o'clock".  The term is "Twenty One hundred" or "Twenty One Hundred hours".

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Well, I'll be!  I must lead a sheltered life!  Do the British do this as well?
 Or is this strictly a non-English trait?

Telling someone here in the states that you'll meet him at twenty-one o'clock
would likely net you a blank stare.  Excepting the military and computer
technologists.

>If I say to an american "call kme at 8", we do not know if I mean AM or PM.

OTOH, if I say "call me at 3", you'll learn soon enough that the 15:00 is
implied!  Context usually determines whether or not to use AM/PM.  "We're
having dinner at 5:30."  "The managers meeting is at 2:30."  "She was born at
1:30AM yesterday."

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952

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We just say meet me at twenty-one o'clock. It makes more sense because each
 hour has it's own number.

If I say to an american "call kme at 8", we do not know if I mean AM or PM.

Denis Robitaille
Directeur services techniques
Cascades Inc
819 363 5187
fax 819 363 5177


>>> D.BALE@handleman.com 12/05/00 09:00am >>>
Well, hey, Richard, you know us Americans - do it right or don't do it at all!
<g>

>AM/PM
Whoa!  Americans are the only ones who use AM/PM?  I never thought we were
that original!  How do you tell someone you want to meet them at 9:00PM?

"Meet me at twenty-one hundred hours"
"Meet me at twenty-one o'clock"
"Meet me at nine o'clock tonight"

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952

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>I think if everyone just used mm/dd/yyyy format, there wouldn't be an
 > issue
 > .... 02/03/2001 can only mean one thing....
FYI, as far as I know, only the USA are using this strange format (along
with AM/PM...)

Best regards
Richard THEIS
AS/400 Education, France
 theis_richard@fr.ibm.com