AM/PM and 24 hour

[Bullshit]

They use both.

okay. But what is most common?

[walterbrunswick]

okay. But what is most common?

Outside of the workplace, the 12-hour clock is definitely more common.

Such as "Meet me for lunch at 12 PM" or "Let's go to the movies at 8 PM" or "I woke up at 9:30 AM".

Inside the workplace, it depends.

[Bullshit]

Outside of the workplace, the 12-hour clock is definitely more common.

Such as "Meet me for lunch at 12 PM" or "Let's go to the movies at 8 PM" or "I woke up at 9:30 AM".

Inside the workplace, it depends.

wow. USA is hard to understand

[acolyte_to_jippity]

i use military time personally. laptop's configured to it, my digital watch is (when i wear it), alarm clock, and i just naturally think in it.

solves so many problems.

[loka]

North America uses am/pm to tell time since the clock only goes through 12 and starts back at 1. And it is not just the "USA" that uses the 12 hour clock system. The military, aviation, navigation, meteorology, astronomy, computing, logistics, emergency services, and hospital services use 24 hour time because they want to avoid conflict in paperwork as far as someone writing "this person had this at 4." Well really wtf does that mean? So to avoid confusion and potential lawsuits and other problems they would say 1600 and it would be obvious it happened at 4pm in the afternoon.